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We're getting closer to our nature.
Culture is public, because meaning is
We don't know what we think until we see what we say.
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.
I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should
I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.
I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.
I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.
I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity
I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.
I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now
I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.
I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
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