There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down
Clifford GeertzWhat we call our data are really our own constructions of other peopleโs constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.
Clifford GeertzI agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical
Clifford GeertzI think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world
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