I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

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

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

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

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