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People Quotes by Clifford Geertz
- What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.
- 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 dissolves…
- My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things
- I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now
- 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…
- People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
- It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is…
- 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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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle