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

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

Culture is public, because meaning is

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

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