I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.
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The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.Clifford Geertz
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
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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.
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To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
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I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
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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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