For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the pres… - Claude Lévi-Strauss

Başka kültürlerden âdet alma bir olgudur; ama alınan, sebeplerin tamamını beraberinde getirmez. İthal edilen alışkanlık özümsenmez, daha ziyade katalizör rolü oynar; yani sadece varlığıyla, ikinci ortamda olası hâlde zaten mevcut olan benzer bir alışkanlığın tezahürüne yol açar.

Our science arrived at maturity the day that Western man began to see that he would never understand himself as long as there was a single race or people on the surface of the earth that he treated as an object. Only then could anthropology declare itself in its true colours: as an enterprise reviewing and atoning for the Renaissance, in order to spread humanism to all humanity.

The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses. [Le village entier partit le lendemain dans une trentaine de pirogues, nous laissant seuls avec les femmes et les enfants dans les maisons abandonnées.]