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

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

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

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

If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.

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