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.

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things

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

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

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

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