I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity

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

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

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

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should