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

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

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

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

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