Paul Rabinow

Aging is anthropology's ultimate fieldwork.

Power/knowledge is the axis of modern politics.

The self is not given; it's assembled.

Ethnography demands humility in the face of the unknown.

Human bonds are forged in shared vulnerability.

Critique is the lifeblood of anthropology.

In every translation, something is lost and gained.

Science progresses through controversy, not consensus.

The personal is always political in anthropological inquiry.

Meaning arises from the interplay of signs and silences.

Fieldwork taught me that truth is perspectival.

Foucault's archaeology unearths the buried logics of power.

Anthropology bridges worlds, but never fully.

Life's wisdom comes from enduring ambiguity.

The interview reveals as much about the interviewer as the interviewee.

Culture is a verb, not a noun.

In the end, we are all ethnographers of our own lives.

Power operates through the minutiae of daily life.

The laboratory is where dreams meet materiality.

Reflection is the anthropologist's sharpest tool.