Clifford Geertz

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

If 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.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.

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

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.