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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."
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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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"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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"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."
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"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
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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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"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
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"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."
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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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"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
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"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
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"Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him."
People
"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
Beginning
"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
Mother
"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
"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
Writer
"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."
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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."
Anthropology
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology
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