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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."
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"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical."
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"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
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"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology
"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
Books
"If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology."
Anthropology
"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."
Anthropology
"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology
"I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity."
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"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
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"If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology."
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"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
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"One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in tribal societies that had not been pacified by a colonial or national government, particularly if they had an exaggerated culture of manly honor."
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"Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top."
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"Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology."
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"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
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"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
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