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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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"Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races."
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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 in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
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"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
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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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"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 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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"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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"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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"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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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 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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"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
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"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
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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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"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
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"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
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"We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard."
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