Clifford Geertz Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 23, 1926 - October 30, 2006

Topics

NameYouDoneInfiniteAnything

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Jim Morrison

PeopleGenerationDivorceNewWant

I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.

Jo Cox

LiveHillOldTowerBigDutch

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

John Eldredge

LifeLiveSadGardenFarEden

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.

Matthew Morrison

GreatKidBowlerCoupleLeagues

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

Stephen Kinzer

WorldCountryChampionsDomination

Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

Summer Sanders

GoalsFearGreatSwimmingOvercoming

I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from.

Mary Berry

FoodStrongKnowingAlwaysInterest

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

Chris Hardwick

AgeManagementInformationAnymore

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

Ashton Kutcher

NightNot KnowingDoneDeadKnowing

NMDA receptors are concentrated in the areas that control learning and memory, higher functions like multitasking, and some of the more subtle aspects of personality. When the immune system makes antibodies that attack these receptors, people may have seizures and violent fits.

Susannah Cahalan

LearningPersonalityMemoryPeople

When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with black eyeliner all around the eye, but for someone with my kind of skin tone and hair colour, using brown is actually better than black. I've also learnt from makeup artists how to apply lipstick in the correct way: by starting with the Cupid's bow first and working your way around.

Poppy Delevingne

HairEyeMakeupBlackBetterSkin

It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.

Peter York

I AmNiceWayWriteNeedSame

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