 | Louis Menand - 1996 - 260 pages
...about philosophy what Clifford Geertz said of anthropology: that it is "a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...better is the precision with which we vex each other." 53 Still, Lovejoy would have added, Peirce was right: to inquire at all is to hold out the possibility... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 pages
..."essentially contestable." Anthropology, or at least interpretive anthropology, is a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...better is the precision with which we vex each other. This is very difficult to see when one's attention is being monopolized by a single party to the argument.... | |
 | Louis Menand - 1996 - 260 pages
...about philosophy what Clifford Geertz said of anthropology: that it is "a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...gets better is the precision with which we vex each other."53 Still, Lovejoy would have added, Peirce was right: to inquire at all is to hold out the possibility... | |
 | Jacob A. Belzen - 1997 - 294 pages
...man has said. "Anthropology, or at least interpretive anthropology, is a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...better is the precision with which we vex each other" (Geertz 1973, p. 29). Following Gilbert Ryle, Geertz appoints the method of 'thick description' as... | |
 | Gail Henderson - 1997 - 536 pages
...is a science whose progress is marked less by the development of consensus than by refinement of the debate. What gets better is the precision with which we vex each other" (1973, 29). Despite ongoing debate, most contemporary anthropologists view culture as an evolving,... | |
 | Gail Dines, Robert Jensen, Ann Russo - 1998 - 206 pages
...interpretation. Progress made through this kind of interpretive 70 study is, as Clifford Geertz writes, "marked less by a perfection of consensus than by...better is the precision with which we vex each other" (Geertz, 1973, p. 29). In the debate over pornography people too often have vexed each other without... | |
 | Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi - 1998 - 224 pages
...(social science included) is made. In many ways (to borrow again a phrase from Geertz) this study is "marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a refinement of debate." 15 1 do feel that to a great degree my "sample" of returnees is representative of the class and its... | |
 | Boris Pleskovic, Joseph E. Stiglitz - 1999 - 428 pages
...quotation from Clifford Geertz that Donald L. Horowitz cites in his article: progress in anthropology is "marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a refinement of debate" (Geertz 1973, p. 29, cited in Horowitz, this volume). In this comment I offer suggestions on where... | |
 | Andrew Sayer - 2000 - 228 pages
...conclusions are applicable outside them? Perhaps not. As Geertz argues, '[in ethnography] progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...better is the precision with which we vex each other' (1973, p. 29). Ideally, each study broadens or otherwise challenges the range of schema with which... | |
 | Thomas L. Haskell - 2000 - 446 pages
...about philosophy what Clifford Geertz said of anthropology: that it is "a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...gets better is the precision with which we vex each other."43 Still, Lovejoy would have added, Peirce was right: to inquire at all is to hold out the possibility... | |
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Anthropology, or at least interpretive anthropology, is a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a refinement of debate. What gets better is the precision with which we vex each other. 
