I’ve written a lot of books which are written from the moon – the view from nowhere. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There’s been an extraordinary advance. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I’m very skeptical. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
I’ve often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. Clifford Geertz Read Quote
