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

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

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

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

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down