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    Clifford James Geertz (/ɡɜːrts/ ; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for...
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  • 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...
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    comparative method that developed into comparative religion. Subsequently, Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) and others questioned the validity of abstracting a general...
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  • distinguished lecture before the American Anthropological Association in 1984, Clifford Geertz claimed that the critics of cultural relativism did not really understand...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz. The book is a foundational text in cultural anthropology and represents Geertz’s vision of how culture should...
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  • 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...
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  • the anthropologist Clifford Geertz included in the book The Interpretation of Cultures (1973). Considered[by whom? – Discuss] Geertz's most seminal work...
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  • Emile Durkheim, E.E. Evans Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Clifford Geertz, and Talal Asad have all grappled with defining and characterizing...
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    Allen & Unwin. Geertz, Clifford (1993). "Religion as a cultural system". The interpretation of cultures: selected essays, Geertz, Clifford. London: Fontana...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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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...
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  • Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1968. Clifford Geertz, "Religion as a Cultural System" in Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures. New York:...
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    formations. — Geertz (1980), p. 135 Clifford Geertz also expanded on the symbolic approach to ritual that began with Victor Turner. Geertz argued that religious...
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    search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning. — Clifford Geertz (1973) Geertz's interpretive method involved what he called "thick description"...
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  • 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...
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    Nineteenth-Century Bali is a 1980 book written by anthropologist Clifford Geertz. Geertz argues that the pre-colonial Balinese state was not a "hydraulic...
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    and the Shaharit Institute. Mizrachi won the Sociology of Culture's Clifford Geertz Award for Best Article from the American Sociological Association in...
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  • Kampung Inggris Pare), which emerged after the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz conducted research there into religion in Java in relation to Indonesian...
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    from Java, symbolizing the social unity of those participating in it. Clifford Geertz considered it the core ritual in Javanese religion, in particular the...
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    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...
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  • for social and technological advancement, which was contrasted by Clifford Geertz with what he termed the (essentialist) valorisation of traditional...
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    René Girard E. E. Evans-Pritchard James Frazer Fustel de Coulanges Clifford Geertz Robin Horton Claude Lévi-Strauss Robert Marett Steven Ozment Roy Rappaport...
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  • Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali, a book by anthropologist Clifford Geertz Negara Brunei Darussalam, official name of Brunei, a country located...
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  • ornithologist Clifford Geertz (1926–2006), American anthropologist Clifford Goldstein (born 1955), American author, Seventh-day Adventist editor Clifford Goodman...
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    science, global studies, and various ethnic studies. According to Clifford Geertz, ...anthropology is perhaps the last of the great nineteenth-century...
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    René Girard E. E. Evans-Pritchard James Frazer Fustel de Coulanges Clifford Geertz Robin Horton Claude Lévi-Strauss Robert Marett Steven Ozment Roy Rappaport...
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    Java". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com. The Religion of Java. Clifford Geertz. University of Chicago Press 1976. ISBN 0-226-28510-3 Understanding...
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