If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
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The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
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I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
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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.
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I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
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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.
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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.
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The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
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If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.
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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
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