Clifford Geertz, an eminent cultural anthropologist who stressed the importance of understanding the symbols of different societies, died late last month. Debbie Elliott has a remembrance. We take a ...

Cultural anthropologists often turn an eye to their own kinship structure, and on the master chart of intellectual relations, Clifford Geertz is my grandfather. His name, enclosed within the points of ...

WASHINGTON — Clifford Geertz, an anthropologist whose imaginative studies of cultural groups from other countries changed the intellectual underpinnings of anthropology and other social sciences, died ...

Clifford Geertz, an anthropologist whose imaginative studies of cultural groups from other countries changed the intellectual underpinnings of anthropology and other social sciences, died Oct. 30 at ...

Clifford Geertz, a seminal thinker in the world of anthropology, died last month. He worked during the second half of the 20th century, when anthropology was moving in a formalistic, scientific ...

Clifford Geertz, anthropologist: born San Francisco 23 August 1926; Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 1958-60; Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of ...

A Very Modest Manifesto: to attempt to expand the disciplinary boundaries of both anthropology and science studies by employing local literary genres and films as features of dynamic cultural critique ...

If you mapped out a novelist’s history in books, beloved and influential fictions would have to loom large in the foreground. But books of ideas can be significant in a novelist’s formation too – ...

Clifford Geertz, an eminent cultural anthropologist at the Institute for Advanced Study who had a long association with Princeton University, died Monday, Oct. 30, following heart surgery at the ...

If you mapped out a novelist's history in books, beloved and influential fictions would have to loom large in the foreground. But books of ideas can be significant in a novelist's formation too - ...