I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.
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
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.
Clifford Geertz
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
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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
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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I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
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