Clifford Geertz quotes - page 2

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology. (Clifford Geertz)
I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. View quote
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I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist. View quote
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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. View quote
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Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. View quote
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I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical. View quote
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I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style. View quote
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I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it. View quote
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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 means. (Clifford Geertz)
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code. View quote
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I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain. View quote
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I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity. View quote
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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. View quote
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Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars. View quote
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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. View quote
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I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. View quote
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I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done. View quote
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I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world. View quote
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Some professors and especially younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology. (That's perhaps a little extreme.) In my field I have always argued for the pluralistic approach to things rather than solidification into some particular line (even my own line) of work. But there is a great deal of anxiety. I think it is true that scholars, both young and old, are overly anxious about pluralism, diversity, conflict-younger ones especially because when they're first getting into a field they want to know what it is they're supposed to know, but older ones, too, because they somehow yearn for a lost paradise when everyone knew what they were doing. (Clifford Geertz)
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology. View quote
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Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning. View quote
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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. View quote
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We're getting closer to our nature. View quote
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