A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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