It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.
Clifford GeertzAnthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
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 GeertzIf 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
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