I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
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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.Clifford Geertz
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
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I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.
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Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.
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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.
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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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