Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity

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

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

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

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.