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Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed. — Clifford Geertz

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. — Clifford Geertz

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

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

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

If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home. — Clifford Geertz

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

Culture is public, because meaning is — Clifford Geertz

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear. — Clifford Geertz

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code. — Clifford Geertz

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. — Clifford Geertz

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

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

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

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should. — 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

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

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

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

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. — Clifford Geertz

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

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to. — Clifford Geertz

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

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

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

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too. — Clifford Geertz

We don't know what we think until we see what we say. — Clifford Geertz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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