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Writing Quotes by Clifford Geertz

A collection of Writing Quotes by Clifford Geertz

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

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