What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

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

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

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