If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

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

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

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world