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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 36 quotes by Clifford Geertz Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ Anthropology Outline History Types Archaeological Biological Social Cultural Linguistic Archaeological Bioarchaeological Environmental Ethnoarchaeological Feminist Maritime Paleoethnobotanical Zooarchaeological Biological Anthrozoological Biocultural Evolutionary Forensic Molecular Neurological Nutritional Palaeoanthropological Primatological Social Cultural Applied Art Cognitive Cyborg Development... Read full biography of Clifford Geertz → 1 2 3 Ctrl → I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything. 0 People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. 0 The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more... → 0 I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field. 0 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 in this regard. 0 The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a... → 0 Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars. 0 The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. 0 Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite;... → 0 Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed. 0 I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. 0 I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. 0 My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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