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" People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. "
Clifford Geertz
Sociology
Anthropology
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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. "
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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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" 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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" If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code. "
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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 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. "
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" Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars. "
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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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" I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world. "
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" I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. "
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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. "
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" We're getting closer to our nature. "
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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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" Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical. "
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" 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. "
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