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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.
- Almost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
- Feminism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
- Nowhere
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.
- Fasten
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- Nov 07, 2020
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.
- Nervous
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- Nov 07, 2020
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020