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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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"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
"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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"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
"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."
"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
"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."
"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
"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."
"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 is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
"Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races."
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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