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

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

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

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

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

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