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Clifford Geertz
American Scientist
Born: Aug 23, 1926
Died: Oct 30, 2006
Always Anthropology People Think Writing You
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People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. Clifford Geertz
People Nervous Everybody How Anthropology Gets Different Asking Keep Sociology
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. Clifford Geertz
Science Perception Humanities Think Gulf Between False Being Deep
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
Great Anxiety Matter Great Deal Distinct Never Had Over Because Deal Real Method Subject Anthropology Subject Matter
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
Criticism Research Out Find Point How Anthropology Replace Literary Literary Criticism Persuasive
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
Nature Knowledge Thought Fall Think Back About More Anthropology Rhetoric Regard Body Need
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. Clifford Geertz
Made Important Feminism Think Increased Kind More Masculine Bias Feminist Issue Been Quite Sensitivity Us Conscious
I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical. Clifford Geertz
Nothing Structures Almost Almost Nothing Very Skeptical Agree Innate
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. Clifford Geertz
People Gender Think Attempt Concerns Very Succeeded Now Aware Consciousness Raise
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world. Clifford Geertz
Best World Think System Seems Still American University
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things. Clifford Geertz
Soul People Remember Before Critic Critics About New Like Talked Shelley Up Trained Stood Literature Such Things Things
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything. Clifford Geertz
You Try Think Everything Inveterate Always Hedgehog Should Fox
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code. Clifford Geertz
Writing Remember Language Correctly Someone Writer Wants Information Convey Who Code
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed. Clifford Geertz
Constructed Historically Meaning Socially
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should. Clifford Geertz
Most Doing Straightforward Should
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. Clifford Geertz
People Some Onto Instincts Sort Always Want Against Hegemony Who Things Fasten
We're getting closer to our nature. Clifford Geertz
Nature Our Closer Getting
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
Worth Beauty Thinking Way Physical Intuition About Physicist Physicists Talk Mathematician Mathematicians Historians Quite Different Which Means Elegance Things

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