Clifford Geertz

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue. ”

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. ”

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. ”

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars. ”

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology. ”

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology. ”

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. ”

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. ”

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity. ”

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