20th century Quote by Clifford Geertz

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see…

— Clifford Geertz

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what…

— Clifford Geertz

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

— Lily King

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by…

— Franz Boas

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on…

— Clifford Geertz

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

— Edward Sapir

Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been…

— Franz Boas

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture.…

— Laurie Colwin

“Anthropology at that time was in transition, moving from the study of men dead and gone to the study of living people, and slowly…

— Lily King

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you…

— Clifford Geertz

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages,…

— Clyde Kluckhohn