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

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.