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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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"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."
"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical."
"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
"I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity."
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"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
"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 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."
"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
"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."
"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
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