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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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"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."
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"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical."
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"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
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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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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity."
Diversity
"I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style."
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"I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means."
Science
"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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"Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed."
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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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"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 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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"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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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
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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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"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
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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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