Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
Clifford GeertzI think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist
Clifford GeertzA religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.
Clifford Geertz