Stolen words to create some sort of continuum of both outside and inside interest:"The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political, and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness"."It is always cheaper to produce obedience through mystification than through police-military coercion.""French Structuralism is the most infulential anthropological strategy in contemporary Western Europe. It is anitpositivist, dialectical, idealist, and ahistorical. Its founder-genius, Claude Levi-Strauss, avows a disinterest in testable theories and ignores casuality, origins, and historical processes.""Once human behavior is seen as . . . symbolic action--action which, like phonation in speech, pigment in painting, line in writing, or sonance in music, signifies--the question as to whether culture is patterned conduct or a frame of mind, or even the two somehow mixed together, loses sense. The thing to ask [of actions] is what their import is"