"I once asked the Dogon why they have 5-day weeks, and they asked me how many fingers I had."-Jean Rouch, 1991

"Most importantly, local knowledge would be digested through institutions of learning in Europe and only then re-served as qualified knowledge about Indies "customs," "cultures," and "peoples," ideally shorn of touch and taste and no longer local at all."-Ann Stoler, Along the Archival Grain, 2009

"Aura becomes visible only as it disappears. Auratic experience cannot be 'salvaged' or resurrected in modernity, but it can be represented in allegorical form." -Catherine Russel, Experimental Ethnography, 1999