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

Clifford Geertz

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We're getting closer to our nature. "

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

" My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is. "

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

Clifford Geertz

Diversity

Think

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "