I Don't Write Drafts. I Write From

I Think Of Myself As A Writer Who Happens To Be Doing His Writing As An Anthropologist

There Is An Indian Story -- At Least I Heard It As An Indian Story -- About An Englishman Who, Having Been Told That The World Rested On A Platform Which Rested On The Back Of An Elephant Which Rested In Turn On The Back Of A Turtle, Asked (perhaps He Was An Ethnographer; It Is The Way They Behave), What Did The Turtle Rest On? Another Turtle. And That Turtle? 'ah, Sahib, After That It Is Turtles All The Way Down

I Think The American University System Still Seems To Be The Best System In The World

People Keep Asking How Anthropology Is Different From Sociology, And Everybody Gets Nervous.

I Don't Write Drafts. I Write From The Beginning To The End, And When It's Finished, It's Done