Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

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

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

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

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

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