A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

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

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

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

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.