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

We're getting closer to our nature. - Clifford Geertz

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

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

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

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

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

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

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. - Clifford Geertz

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should. - Clifford Geertz

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