Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz
Clifford James Geertzwas an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth23 August 1926
CountryUnited States of America
book mean writing
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
writing want information
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code
writing research literature
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
writing done ends
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done
writing style academic
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
believe writing balance
Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.
writing thinking anthropologists
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist
people secular
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.
fall knowledge nature rhetoric
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.
moving thinking diversity
I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity
destroying scholar employed
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.
feminist female anthropology
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
looks done amusing
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
thinking people consciousness
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now