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Top 40 Clifford Geertz Quotes (2024 Update)

Clifford Geertz Quote: “Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “Culture is public, because meaning is.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “We don’t know what we think until we see what we say.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “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 Quote: “One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “I’ve often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “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 Quote: “I think what’s known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “I don’t write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it’s finished, it’s done.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “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 Quote: “Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “I don’t think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they’re moving toward more diversity.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “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 Quote: “I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There’s been an extraordinary advance.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “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 Quote: “I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I’m very skeptical.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “It may be in the cultural particularities of people – in their oddities – that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “I’ve written a lot of books which are written from the moon – the view from nowhere.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “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 Quote: “I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “I’m an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “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 Quote: “A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “If there’s ever a place where you can’t argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “I’m writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it’s about social constructionism. So I would say I’m a social constructionist, whatever that means.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I’m satisfied with it.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “I don’t have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “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 Quote: “The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn’t got any, has, whatever its comforts for those afraid reality is going to go away unless we believe very hard in it, not conduced to much in the way of clarity in the anti-relativist discussion, but merely to far too many people spending far too much time describing at length what it is they do not maintain than seems in any way profitable.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “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 Quote: “It’s always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it’s written now. There’s been an enormous shift in how it’s done, but yet you can’t put your finger on someone who actually did it.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “All ethnography is part philosophy and a good deal of the rest is confession.”
Clifford Geertz Quote: “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.”
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