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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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"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."
History
"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical."
Nothing
"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
People
"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
Books
"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."
Writer
"I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity."
Diversity
"I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style."
Style
"I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means."
Science
"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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"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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"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
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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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"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 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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"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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"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
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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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"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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