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

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

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

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

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

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

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