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

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

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

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

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