I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

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

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

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

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain