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...

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...

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

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...

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...

the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz. The book is a foundational text in cultural anthropology and represents Geertz’s vision of how culture should...

the anthropologist Clifford Geertz included in the book The Interpretation of Cultures (1973). Considered[by whom? – Discuss] Geertz's most seminal work...

Look up Geertz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Geertz is a German surname. People with this surname include: Clifford Geertz (1926–2006), U.S. anthropologist...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kampung Inggris Pare), which emerged after the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz (as part of the Modjokuto project) conducted research there into religion...

Robert Oppenheimer, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, Michael Walzer, Clifford Geertz and Kurt Gödel, many of whom had emigrated from Europe to the United...

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

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

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

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 interpretive anthropology of Clifford Geertz which defines ideology as cultural maps. Blakely innovated on Geertz's conception by adding to it both...

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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...

1908) 2005 – Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian politician (b. 1942) 2006 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist and author (b. 1926) 2006 – Junji Kinoshita...

and the Shaharit Institute. Mizrachi won the Sociology of Culture's Clifford Geertz Award for Best Article from the American Sociological Association in...

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...

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

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