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Ever since Gramsci's notion of hegemony entailing an equal & opposite resistance of the oppressed, anyone who relates the so-called grand narrative of Western domination is also likely to subvert it by invoking “weapons of the weak,” or some such local discourse of cultural defiance. This is a no-lose strategy, since the two characterizations in some combination will cover any and every historical eventuality.

As Sartre said of a certain vulgar Marxism, we are impelled to take the real content of a thought or an act as a mere appearance, and having dissolved this particular in a universal (here economic interest), we take satisfaction in believing we have reduced appearance to truth.

As polyphonic or heteroglossic as the monograph may be, one does not find a Japanese voice in a Sioux Indian ethnography.
In order for the categories to be contested at all, there must be a common system of intelligibility. The differences at issue always entail some relationship. As Cassierer says in another context, “an awareness of a difference is an awareness of a connection.

In Adam (Smith)’s Fall, Sinned We All:
...the genesis of Economics was the economics of Genesis...The real reason Economics is dismal is that it is the science of the post-lapsarian condition. And the Economic Man inhabiting page one of (any) General Principles of Economics textbook is Adam.

I LOVE MARSHALL SAHLINS !!!!!!!!

Orientalismo
In Anthropology there are things that are better left un-Said

Two Certainties in the long run: we'll be all dead and we'll all be wrong.

"...in looking over my notebook it struck me that Lord Keynes didn’t tell the whole story about the long run. At least as far as anthropology goes, two things are certain in the long run: one is that we’ll all be dead; but another is that we’ll all be wrong. Clearly, a good scholarly career is where the first comes before the second."