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• Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to…
• [Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means…
• I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
• What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up…
• If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.
• Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own…
• I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false
• Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just…
• I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology
• Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety…
• I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain
• Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and…

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