Top 78 Quotes & Sayings by Clifford Geertz - Page 2

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

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

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

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

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

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

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

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

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

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

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

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

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

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