Anthropologist Quote by Clifford Geertz Download Open image “I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist” — Clifford Geertz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anthropologist Doing Writing Happens Think Writer Thinking Writer Happens Writing Writing Anthropologist
I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form. — Lily King Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer. — Meital Dohan 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
I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“And what does an anthropologist do these days?" sad Paul. "Same thing a supernumerary minister does--becomes a public charge, a bore, or possibly a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist,… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
“I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians. [Referring to… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“… matter out of place, as a famous anthropologist once described dirt.” — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image