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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
