Quotes By Clifford Geertz

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.

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.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.