Occupation: Cultural Anthropologist Birth: December 16, 1901 Death: November 15, 1978
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us cau….
I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can ….
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other peopl….
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experienc….
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creatio….
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within ….
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention….
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered wa….
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back..
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the def….
Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others ….
The mind is not sex-typed..
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate..
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded..
I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed..
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothi….
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR..
We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of poli….
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands t….
No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the ….
As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have ….