#polo

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

— Clifford Geertz

#almost #anthropology #become #been #consciousness

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#doing #happens #his #i #i think

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. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#argue #ever #facts #fit #here

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#actually #always #amusing #anthropology #been

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#doing #most #should #straightforward

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

#criticism #find #how #literary #literary criticism

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#anthropology #back #body #fall #knowledge

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#basketball #been #football #individual #polo

The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#academy awards #amazing #apologize #awards #bit

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#apology #before #case #commit #japanese