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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."

"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."

"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."

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."

"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."

"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."

"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."

"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."

"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."

"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."

"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."

"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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