Quotes by Clifford Geertz

“I wanted to be a novelist and a newspaper man... I went to Antioch College and majored in English, at least in the beginning, with the intention of doing something like that.... Antioch had a co-op...”

“Some professors and especially 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 anythi...”

“One way to understand women's consciousness is to make visible the cultures it creates. Culture may be defined as the ordered system of meanings in terms of which people define their world, express...”

“Clifford Geertz says it all in one crisp, succinct sentence: I'm probably a closet rhetorician, although I'm coming out of the closet a bit. For over three decades, Geertz has been attempting to st...”

“Gary A. Olson. Clifford Geertz on Ethnography and Social Construction, in: Journal of Advanced Composition 11.2 (1991)”