Occupation: Cultural Anthropologist Birth: December 16, 1901 Death: November 15, 1978
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel..
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other liv….
Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day..
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essenti….
I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw.
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships..
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an or….
In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young..
A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of eco….
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly..
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imper….
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a mod….
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses..
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it..
Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficul….
If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in o….
In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all huma….
Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonia….
Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad,….
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A ….
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on th….