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

Clifford Geertz

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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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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

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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. "

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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" I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. "

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" 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. "

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