A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

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

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

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

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.