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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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