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Writing Quotes by Clifford Geertz
- If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code
- I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
- 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…
- 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
- 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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