 | H.B. Schwartzman - 1989 - 370 pages
...in rurn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that...Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down" (1973:28-29). 6. Tracy Brown submitted her resignation as director of the South Unit'. 7. Union contract... | |
 | Clifford G. Christians, John P. Ferré, P. Mark Fackler - 1993 - 286 pages
...philosophically uninteresting. A classic story from India reiterates Nagel's argument: "An Englishman, having been told that the world rested on a platform...Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down.' "56 As we probe beyond the hard surfaces of life, we cut through the platform and elephant layers to... | |
 | Francis Barker - 1993 - 280 pages
...Howard 1986. p. 19). of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that...Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down.' (1973, pp. 28-9) It is, of course, hard to parse the critical implications of this story precisely;... | |
 | Michael Martin, Lee C. McIntyre - 1994 - 818 pages
...in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), What did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that...Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down." Such, indeed, is the condition of things. I do not know how long it would be profitable to meditate... | |
 | John Emigh - 1996 - 372 pages
...Geertz of an explanation of the Hindu cosmology: "There is an Indian story [. . .] about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform...Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down' " ( 1973: 28-29 ]. 17, The Hindu maxim Tat Twam Asi, "Thou Art That," expressing the oneness of microcosm... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 pages
...in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer,- it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that...Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down." Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less... | |
 | Diane Vaughan - 1996 - 608 pages
...in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that...Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down." 14 Geertz tells the story to point out that cultural analysis is necessarily incomplete, and the more... | |
 | Alessandro Duranti - 1997 - 424 pages
...in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that...Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down." Such, indeed, is the condition of things.... Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. (Geertz... | |
 | Georg Vielmetter - 1998 - 380 pages
...in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), What did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that...Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down." Clifford Geertz Einleitung Sind die Sozialwissenschaften echte Wissenschaften? Das ist die Frage, die... | |
 | Catherine Nickerson - 2000 - 260 pages
...following anecdote: There is an Indian story - at least I heard it as an Indian story - about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform...Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down." University protocol in Nijmegen forbids me from thanking Kees de Bot for his excellent supervision... | |
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... There is an Indian story — at least I heard it as an Indian story — about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps... 
