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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 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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"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
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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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"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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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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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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"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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"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."
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"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
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"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."
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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
Writer
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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
"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
People
"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
People
"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 think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
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"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
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"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."
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