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

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

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

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.

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.