Alas, it is an illusion to suppose that the invasion of one element disencumbers another. - Claude Lévi-Strauss

...kültürel çeşitlilik olgusu yadsınır; yaşamımızı düzenleyen normlara uymayan ne varsa kültürün dışına, doğaya atılması yeğlenir.

Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new effort which destroys it in favor of a third, and so on and so forth until we reach the one lasting presence, the point at which the distinction between meaning and the absence of meaning disappears: the same point from which we began.

The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.