Re: seeking author for quote- suspected anthro (FWD)

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: John Mcreery: "Situating usage"
• Previous message: Mike Lieber: "reply to Whitehead"

PLEASE RESPOND TO THE ORIGINAL ADDRESS AND DO NOT USE THE REPLY COMAND-
THANKS,
Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj
University of Cambridge

----------------------------------------------------------------------

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 95 21:05:44 EST
From: S Jain <skjain@server.uwindsor.ca>
To: Multiple recipients of list <south-asia@cunews.carleton.ca>
Subject: Seeking Author! Author! (fwd)



Would someone be kind enough to help me locate the author
(and, of course, the title of the book and page reference)
of the following passage, please:
(and, of course, the title of the book and page reference)
of the following passage, please:

What we learn from India and Japan is subjectivity,
which is a very good term to cover all those things
like privacy. And the great sickness of our society
is objectivity. But - you can never jump out of
your cultural skin. I think we should always view
what comes from the East as a corrective for our
own culture, rather than try to get into the skin
of the Easterner. You cannot _become_ him. Perhaps
the new society that comes out of this disintegra-
tion of an age will emphasize inner being, which
is terribly hard to talk about in modern techno-
logical America. people don't even think the word
_being_ means anything any more. Whereas, it's actually
what we are.

I am told the author may be Margaret Mead, but I have not been able to
locate this quote in some of her works that I had the opportunity
to scan. (But I doubt if it is Mead. Another repondent has suggested
that it may Ruth Benedict.)

Thanks.

Sushil Jain
e-mail -> skjain@uwindsor.ca

• Next message: John Mcreery: "Situating usage"
• Previous message: Mike Lieber: "reply to Whitehead"