Ethnography Quote by Clifford Geertz Download Open image “Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should” — Clifford Geertz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethnography Should Straightforward
“The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only… — James Rachels Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on. — Lily King Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In business and organizational settings, cultural anthropologists observe what people are doing, observe their habits, listen to their stories, capture the meaning of their… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
“Studying anthropology tends t change the way you look at the world. It leaves a distinctive chip in your brain, or lens over your… — Gillian Tett Copy Share Image
As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what… — Ruth Beebe Hill Copy Share Image
Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay in the… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
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 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
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable. — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
“Some individuals came right out and accused me of being a Neo-Orientalist (in a pejorative Edward Said sense of the term). So of course… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the… — Theodore C. Bestor Copy Share Image
“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with the fight… — Philippe Descola Copy Share Image
“I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it.… — James P. Spradley Copy Share Image
I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has… — Ari Marcopoulos Copy Share Image
Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography. — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
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