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

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

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

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.