I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity

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