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I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.
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The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
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People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
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My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.
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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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I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
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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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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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I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
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I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.
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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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Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.
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Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.
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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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