I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
From Clifford Geertz
I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.
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.
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
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.
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
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.
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
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