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 GeertzUnderstanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.
Clifford GeertzAnthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
Clifford GeertzI'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything
Clifford Geertz