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

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

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

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now