Anthropology Quote by Clifford Geertz

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

— Clifford Geertz

“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the ambiguities and…

— Gregory Wolfe

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

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its…

— Nancy Pearcey

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of…

— Lionel Trilling

“If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves…

— Marjorie Garber

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

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It…

— Anne Stevenson

Literature is for the sake of humanity.

— Cynthia Ozick

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz