All Clifford Geertz Quotes
I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.
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I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.
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I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
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Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
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It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.
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I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.
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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.
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Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.
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I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
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I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
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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.
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If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
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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.
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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.
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