Peter Farb Quotes

• Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.

  Peter Farb

  Spiritual, Together, Eating

  "Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating". Book by George J. Armelagos and Peter Farb, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1980.

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• A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.

  Peter Farb

  Simple, Society, Way

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State”

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• Los gestos y las expresiones faciales sí comunican, como cualquiera puede comprobar apagando el sonido de un televisor y pidiendo a los espectadores que caractericen a los interlocutores sólo a partir de la imagen.

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  Communication, Expression, Gestures

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.236, Vintage

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• At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.

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  Pay, Sacred, Groups

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg

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• Los hombres de todas las sociedades poseen el equipamiento biológico para quitarse el sombrero o los zapatos, pero es el nacimiento dentro de una cultura concreta el que decide que un judío se deje puesto el sombrero y los zapatos en su lugar de culto, un mahometano se quite los zapatos y un cristiano se deje puestos los zapatos pero se quite el sombrero.

  Peter Farb

  Christian, Men, Shoes

  PETER FARB (1968). “MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION”

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• Una invención o combinación nueva sólo puede tener éxito si todos los elementos necesarios para la recombinación están presentes en el cultivo.

  Peter Farb

  Successful, Culture, Elements

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg

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• No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

  Peter Farb

  Children, Two, Together

  PETER FARB (1973). “WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK”

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• Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.

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  Mistake, School, Speech

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.258, Vintage

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• The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

  Peter Farb

  Opportunity, Men, Doe

  PETER FARB (1968). “MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION AS SHOWN BY THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA FROM PRIMEVAL TIMES TO THE COMING OF THE INDUSTRIAL STATE”

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• People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.

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  Odio, Gente, Odio

  PETER FARB (1973). “WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK”

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• An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.

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  War, Communication, People

  PETER FARB (1973). “WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK”

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• A pesar de las teorías que tradicionalmente se enseñan en los estudios sociales de secundaria, lo cierto es que cuanto más primitiva es una sociedad, más lujoso es su modo de vida.

  Peter Farb

  School, Way, Taught

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State”

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• Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations.

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  Community, Way, Speech

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.240, Vintage

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• Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

  Peter Farb

  Change, Doe, Language

  PETER FARB (1973). “WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK”

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• In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.

  Peter Farb

  Science, Bridges, Long

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State”

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• Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

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  Marriage, Celebration, Economic

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg

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• The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up exactly where he started, simply because words are defined in terms of other words, and these, in turn, are defined in terms of still other words.

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  Ends, Term, Turns

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.227, Vintage

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• Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.

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  Mother, Editors, Expression

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.331, Vintage

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