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I Had A Hard Time Convincing Students That They Were Going To North Africa To Understand The North Africans, Not To Understand Themselves.

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.

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.

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

I Think Of Myself As A Writer Who Happens To Be Doing His Writing As An Anthropologist