Quote by Clifford Geertz
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isnt a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. – Clifford Geertz

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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. Theres been an extraordinary advance. – Clifford Geertz

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Im writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and its about social constructionism. So I would say Im a social constructionist, whatever that means. – Clifford Geertz

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The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. – Clifford Geertz

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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. – John Millington Synge

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. – Thomas Reid

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