I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

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

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

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

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

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

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