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Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.

~Clifford Geertz

Topics: Doing Most Should Straightforward

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

~Clifford Geertz

Topics: Against Always Fasten Hegemony Instincts Onto People Some Sort Things Want Who

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

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Topics: Anthropology Asking Different Everybody Gets How Keep Nervous People Sociology

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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.

~Clifford Geertz

Topics: Anthropology Criticism Find How Literary Out Persuasive Point Replace Research

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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.

~Clifford Geertz

Topics: Been Before Everyone He Him Liberating Mind Other People Read Reading Really Saint Secular Two Two People

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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.

~Clifford Geertz

Topics: About Beauty Different Elegance Historians Intuition Mathematician Mathematicians Means Physical Physicist Physicists Quite Talk Things Thinking Way Which Worth

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: August 23rd, 1926

Died: October 30th, 2006

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