I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
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I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
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Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
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Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.
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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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I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.
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I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
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I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.