Clifford James Geertz (/ɡɜːrts/ ; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for...

predominant sense in which it is used today was developed by anthropologist Clifford Geertz in his book The Interpretation of Cultures (1973) to characterise his...

comparative method that developed into comparative religion. Subsequently, Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) and others questioned the validity of abstracting a general...

distinguished lecture before the American Anthropological Association in 1984, Clifford Geertz claimed that the critics of cultural relativism did not really understand...

gain a better understanding of a particular society. According to Clifford Geertz, "[b]elieving, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs...

Change in Indonesia is one of the most famous of the early works of Clifford Geertz. Its principal thesis is that many centuries of intensifying wet-rice...

essay by the anthropologist Clifford Geertz included in the book The Interpretation of Cultures (1973). Considered Geertz's most seminal work, it addresses...

Who in America. Geertz was born in New York City on February 12, 1927. She completed her B.A. and met her future husband, Clifford Geertz at Antioch College...

Cultures: Selected Essays is a 1973 book by the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz. The book was listed in the Times Literary Supplement as one of the...

from Java, symbolizing the social unity of those participating in it. Clifford Geertz considered it the core ritual in Javanese religion, in particular the...

the Javanese language word for red, abang, was first developed by Clifford Geertz, but the meaning has since shifted. Abangan are more inclined to follow...

Nineteenth-Century Bali is a 1980 book written by anthropologist Clifford Geertz. Geertz argues that the pre-colonial Balinese state was not a "hydraulic...

Allen & Unwin. Geertz, Clifford (1993). "Religion as a cultural system". The interpretation of cultures: selected essays, Geertz, Clifford. London: Fontana...

Emile Durkheim, E.E. Evans Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Clifford Geertz, and Talal Asad have all grappled with defining and characterizing...

anti-communism as applied in the Cold War. The term was first coined by Clifford Geertz, an American anthropologist at the Institute for Advanced Study, who...

with the rituals and myths of the existing Hindu-Buddhist culture. Clifford Geertz described this as abangan and priyayi; "the lower class and elite varieties...

formations. — Geertz (1980), p. 135 Clifford Geertz also expanded on the symbolic approach to ritual that began with Victor Turner. Geertz argued that religious...

primordialism is associated with sociologist Edward Shils and anthropologist Clifford Geertz. Shils was the first one who used this term in 1957 to describe the...

Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1968. Clifford Geertz, "Religion as a Cultural System" in Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures. New York:...

theatre state is exercised through spectacle. The term, coined by Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) in 1980 in reference to political practice in the nineteenth-century...

Inggris) which is located at Tulungrejo, West Pare while in 1960's, Clifford Geertz had been conduct a research of Religion in Java and its relation to...

Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali, a book by anthropologist Clifford Geertz Negara Brunei Darussalam, official name of Brunei, a country located...

prior to the national revolution. In a study by American sociologist Clifford Geertz, the santri are people, particularly in Java, who practice a more orthodox...

ornithologist Clifford Geertz (1926–2006), American anthropologist Clifford Goldstein (born 1955), American author, Seventh-day Adventist editor Clifford Goodman...

search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning. — Clifford Geertz (1973) Geertz's interpretive method involved what he called "thick description"...

literary critic Fredric Jameson, American cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz, American medical anthropologist Byron J. Good, American philosopher...

he was still a prince during his father's life". The anthropologist Clifford Geertz wrote the influential essay Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight...

for social and technological advancement, which was contrasted by Clifford Geertz with what he termed the (essentialist) valorisation of traditional...

(2006) Geertz (1960), p. 232 Cribb & Kahin (2004), p. lxv Geertz (1960), p. 121 Geertz (1960), p. 234 Geertz (1960), p. 235 Geertz (1960), p. 229 Geertz (1960)...

science, global studies, and various ethnic studies. According to Clifford Geertz, ...anthropology is perhaps the last of the great nineteenth-century...