I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.