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

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

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

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

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology