"Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is."

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Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.29, Basic Books

Clifford Geertz

#Analysis Quotes #Anthropology Quotes #Incomplete Quotes

“You'd figure he'd go do something with his life, like maybe he could enlist and actually become a marine!”
“I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.”
“I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.”
“All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.”
“Hope is a dream deferred.”
“American teens have the worst of all worlds ... Our children are bombarded and confronted with sexual messages, sexual exploitation, and all manner of sexual criticism. But our society is by and large sexually illiterate.”
“I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.”
“When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.”

Source : "Andrew Sullivan, American by Choice". Interview with Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.

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