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My Instincts Are Always Against People Who Want To Fasten Some Sort Of Hegemony Onto Things

A Religion Is A System Of Symbols Which Acts To Establish Powerful, Pervasive, And Long-lasting Moods In Men By Formulating Conceptions Of A General Order Of Existence And Clothing Those Conceptions With Such An Aura Of Factuality That The Moods And Motivations Seem Uniquely Realistic.

Learning To Exist In A World Quite Different From That Which Formed You Is The Condition, These Days, Of Pursuing Research You Can On Balance Believe In And Write Sentences You Can More Or Less Live With.

I've Often Been Accused Of Making Anthropology Into Literature, But Anthropology Is Also Field Research. Writing Is Central To It.

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