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Clifford Geertz Quotes

American - Scientist | August 23, 1926 - October 30, 2006

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Clifford Geertz

Meaning Socially Constructed

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

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People Sociology Nervous Keep Asking

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

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Science History Literature Gender

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

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Science Perception Deep Think False

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.

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Name You Done Infinite Anything

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

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Research Writing Literature Been

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.

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Great Anxiety Matter Never Real

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

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Research Criticism Find Out Point

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.

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Feel Bad Debate Argument Alive

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

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Always Anthropology Been Even Female

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.

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Think Important Kind Bias More Us

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

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Nothing Agree Almost Structures Very

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