I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

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

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

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

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology