Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is

As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

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

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

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

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.