I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

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

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.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

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

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

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one