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"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
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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."
"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."
"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
"If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology."
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
"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 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."
"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 is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
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