Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should