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.
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed. - Clifford Geertz
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
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the fram…
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
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…
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
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 …
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. - Clifford Geertz
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.
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
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 …
[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms,… - Clifford Geertz
[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms,…
We don't know what we think until we see what we say. - Clifford Geertz
We don't know what we think until we see what we say.
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
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…
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