Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

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

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

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

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.