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

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

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

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

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

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.