I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
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I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.
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I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
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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.
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