我的主要关注点不是详细阐述一些宏大的、普遍的理论框架来涵盖整个领域——这是一项不可能完成的任务——而只是展示这个领域的几个方面，我们只是在边缘上触及到了这些方面。

I’m not interested in developing systematic theories. . . . I simply work on my materials and if a valid generalization emerges here or there, I record it and go on to something else. My main concern is not to elaborate some grand, univer-sal theoretical scheme covering the entire fi eld—that’s an impossible task—but only to show a few of the dimensions of the fi eld, which we have touched on only at the margins. We know something here and there—that’s all. Because that is the way I work, my theories are dispersed and nonsystematic, and nobody could ever aspire to summarize them. . . . There are so many things to do that seem more important than to dig up the old stuff again. When I’m completely fi nished with an essay, I forget it, I set it aside, and I go on to something else.65