Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.
Clifford GeertzI had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
Clifford GeertzPeople keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
Clifford Geertz