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Been Quotes by Clifford Geertz
- 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…
- 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…
- Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance
- Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
- I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
- There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the…
- 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…
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