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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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"Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races."
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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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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
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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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"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
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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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"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."
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"Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo."
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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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"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
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"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology
"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
Books
"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 think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
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"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
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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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"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
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"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."
Anthropology
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