We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now.… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
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… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
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… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines of data… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
