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

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

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

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

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

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

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