Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it’s about social constructionism. So I would say I’m a social constructionist, whatever that means. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
