Clifford Geertz Quotes

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

Time, Hard, Understand

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
Clifford Geertz

Writing, Often, Making

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

Beauty, Thinking, Different

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

Bad, Makes, Alive

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
Clifford Geertz

Writing, Happens, Writer

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
Clifford Geertz

Different, Keep, Everybody

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 reputable.
Clifford Geertz

Mother, Father, Others

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

Done, Call, Name

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
Clifford Geertz

General, Feminist, Female

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

Great, Real, Matter

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
Clifford Geertz

History, Science, Become

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

Important, Made, Quite

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
Clifford Geertz

Nothing, Almost, Agree

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
Clifford Geertz

Aware, Attempt, Gender

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.
Clifford Geertz

Single, Write, Everybody

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.
Clifford Geertz

Moving, Point, Toward

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.
Clifford Geertz

End, Done, Write

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.
Clifford Geertz

Until, Leave, Satisfied

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
Clifford Geertz

Impact, Feminism, Major

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.
Clifford Geertz

Best, American, Seems

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
Clifford Geertz

Science, Deep, Between

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.
Clifford Geertz

Known, Uncertain, Scattered

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

Remember, Before, Soul

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.
Clifford Geertz

Everything, Try, Fox

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

Science, Writing, Whatever

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: August 23, 1926

Died: October 30, 2006

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