I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.

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

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology