My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things
Culture is public, because meaning is
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.