Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

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

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

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

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