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“Ethnography of course means many things. Minimally, however, it has always meant the attempt to understand another life world using the self - as much of it as possible - as the instrument of knowing.”
― Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
― Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
“Woman is not "in reality" any closer to (or further from) nature than man - both have consciousness, both are mortal.”
― Feminist Studies
― Feminist Studies
“In other words, woman's consciousness- her membership, as it were, in culture - is evidence in part by the very fact that she accepts her own devaluation and takes culture's point of view.”
― Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
― Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
“[M]ountaineering as a sport both emanates from and addresses itself back to (and back against) the normal patterns of middle class life. One of the dominant discourses of mountaineering [...] positions it critically against "bourgeois" existence, even as the sport demands the resources made possible by such an existence.”
― Life and Death on Mt. Everest
― Life and Death on Mt. Everest
