Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
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. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
I don’t write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it’s finished, it’s done. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
I don’t think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they’re moving toward more diversity. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue. Clifford Geertz Read Quote