“I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.Quote by Clifford GeertzTopics: Quotes about Clifford GeertzShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of...#Clifford Geertz
Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he...#Clifford Geertz
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research....#Clifford Geertz
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written...#Clifford Geertz
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.#Clifford Geertz
I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward...#Clifford Geertz
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what...#Clifford Geertz