I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

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

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist