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

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

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

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.