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

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

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.

If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.

[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology