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Inspirational Quotes by Clifford Geertz
- I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
- What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.
- If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.
- I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false
- Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should
- I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it
- I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical
- I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist
- I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done
- Culture is public, because meaning is
- I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity
- A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.
- We don't know what we think until we see what we say.
- I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
- Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
- Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
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