I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

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

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

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.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

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