Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.

It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.

A woman is subject matter enough.

Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.