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 don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

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

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.

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