Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

- Clifford Geertz

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the fram…

- Clifford Geertz

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the anal…

- Clifford Geertz

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

- Clifford Geertz

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far …

- Clifford Geertz

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general …

- Clifford Geertz

[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms,…

- Clifford Geertz

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

- Clifford Geertz

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but e…

- Clifford Geertz