Quotes About Geertz

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

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

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

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

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

Ethnographer Clifford Geertz says: "Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs."93