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" Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars. "
Anthropology
Always
Feminist
" 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. "
Real
Anxiety
Great
" Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. "
Literature
History
Gender
" 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. "
Feminism
Important
Kind
" I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical. "
Agree
Very
Structures
" 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. "
Bad
Debate
Feel
" I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style. "
Some
Academic
Write
" I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity. "
Diversity
Think
More
" I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done. "
Beginning
Write
Finished
" I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. "
People
Aware
Think
" If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code. "
Language
Remember
Information
" 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. "
Anthropology
See
Place
" I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. "
Students
Time
Understand
" I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything. "
Fox
Think
Try
" 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. "
Science
Writing
Three
" I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it. "
Leave
Never
Satisfied
" I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology. "
Think
Impact
Feminism
" I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist. "
Writing
Myself
Doing
" I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world. "
World
American
Best
" I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. "
Science
Think
Deep
" I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain. "
Uncertain
Think
Still
" 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. "
Look
Done
Always
" I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. "
Writing
Field
Literature
" I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. "
View
Nowhere
Moon
" 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. "
People
New
Literature
" Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed. "
Constructed
Socially
Meaning
" Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should. "
Doing
Straightforward
Should
" My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. "
Things
Always
People
" People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. "
Sociology
Anthropology
Nervous
" 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. "
Always
Horse
Brother
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