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We’re getting closer to our nature (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
I’ve often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There’s been an extraordinary advanc (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
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 mean (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
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. (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn’t a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
I think what’s known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
We don’t know what we think until we see what we say (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
Culture is public, because meaning is (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn’t a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
Understanding a people’s culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity... It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
If there’s ever a place where you can’t argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
I’ve often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
I don’t have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style (Clifford Geertz Quotes)
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