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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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"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."
"It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today."
"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
"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."
"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."
"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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"People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous."
"Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue."
"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."
"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."
"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
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