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

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain

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

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

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

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