I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
More Quotes from Clifford Geertz:
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.Clifford Geertz
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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People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
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My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.
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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.
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