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Clifford Geertz quotes

American Scientist August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006

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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 it is. Clifford Geertz
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things. Clifford Geertz
It may be in the cultural particularities of people? in their oddities? that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found. Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz quote: "I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think..."
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything. Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz quote: "I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded...."
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz quote: "I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his..."
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist. Clifford Geertz
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. 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 if they fit, it is surely in anthropology. Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz quote: "If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home."
If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home. Clifford Geertz
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz quote: "Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to..."
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars. Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz quote: "I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end,..."
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done. Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz quote: "People keep asking how anthropology is different from..."
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. 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'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 an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it. Clifford Geertz

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