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 he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down


The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (ed. Basic Books, 1973) - ISBN: 9780465097197

Clifford Geertz Quotes

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...