if you want to understand what a science...... Quote by "Clifford Geertz"

if you want to understand what a science is, you should look in the first instance not at its theories or its findings, and certainly not at what its apologists say about it; you should look at what the practitioners of it do.
— Clifford Geertz The Interpretation of Cultures

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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.
— Clifford Geertz

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I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
— Clifford Geertz

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The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
— Clifford Geertz

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I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
— Clifford Geertz

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The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
— Clifford Geertz

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