Quotes for All
It’s a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. […] An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I wasn’t French. And even if I were French, it’s not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only … Read more
An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax. David Letterman
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist. David Graeber
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you’re right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. In America … Read more
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology Clifford Geertz
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars Clifford Geertz
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should Clifford Geertz
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. Clifford Geertz
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist Clifford Geertz
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 Clifford Geertz