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Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

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

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

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

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

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

Culture is public, because meaning is

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

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

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

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

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

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

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

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

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

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

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

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

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

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

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

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

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

We're getting closer to our nature.

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what 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.