Quotes By Clifford Geertz

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.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.

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.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.