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" 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. "

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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

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

" I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. "

" Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed. "

" People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. "

" 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. "

" We're getting closer to our nature. "

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

" I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist. "

" 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. "

" I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. "

" 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. "

" Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should. "

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

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

" I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology. "

" I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Clifford Geertz

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "