Top 36 Quotes by Clifford Geertz

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

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

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

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.

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 an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

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 anything and call it anthropology.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.