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I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
~ Clifford Geertz
Anthropologist
Doing
Happens
His
I Think
Myself
Think
Who
Writer
Writing
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I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.
~ Clifford Geertz
American
Best
I Think
Seems
Still
System
Think
University
World
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I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
~ Clifford Geertz
Being
Between
Deep
False
Gulf
Humanities
I Think
Perception
Science
Think
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I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.
~ Clifford Geertz
About
I Think
Known
Scattered
Still
Think
Uncertain
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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
About
Before
Critic
Critics
I Remember
Like
Literature
New
People
Remember
Soul
Stood
Such Things
Talked
Things
Trained
Up
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I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.
~ Clifford Geertz
Always
Everything
Fox
Hedgehog
Inveterate
Should
Think
Try
You
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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
About
Books
Feminism
Means
Review
Say
Science
Social
Three
Whatever
Would
Writing
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I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
~ Clifford Geertz
Accused
Also
Anthropology
Been
Central
Field
Literature
Making
Often
Research
Writing
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I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
~ Clifford Geertz
Books
Lot
Moon
Nowhere
View
Which
Written
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If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
~ Clifford Geertz
Code
Convey
Correctly
I Remember
Information
Language
Remember
Someone
Wants
Who
Writer
Writing
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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
Anthropology
Argue
Ever
Facts
Fit
Here
Over
Place
Put
See
Surely
Text
Where
You
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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
20th Century
Actually
Always
Amusing
Anthropology
Been
Century
Did
Done
Early
Enormous
Finger
How
Look
Now
Put
Shift
Someone
Something
Who
Written
You
Your
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Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
~ Clifford Geertz
Constructed
Historically
Meaning
Socially
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Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.
~ Clifford Geertz
Doing
Most
Should
Straightforward
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My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.
~ Clifford Geertz
Against
Always
Fasten
Hegemony
Instincts
Onto
People
Some
Sort
Things
Want
Who
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People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
~ Clifford Geertz
Anthropology
Asking
Different
Everybody
Gets
How
Keep
Nervous
People
Sociology
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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
African
Always
Brother
Donkey
Father
Favor
His
Horse
More
Mother
Mule
Never
North
Others
Supposedly
Talks
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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
Anthropology
Criticism
Find
How
Literary
Literary Criticism
Out
Persuasive
Point
Replace
Research
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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
About
Beauty
Different
Elegance
Historians
Intuition
Mathematician
Mathematicians
Means
Physical
Physicist
Physicists
Quite
Talk
Things
Thinking
Way
Which
Worth
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Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.
~ Clifford Geertz
Been
Before
Everyone
He
Him
Liberating
Mind
Other
People
Read
Reading
Really
Saint
Secular
Two
Two People
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