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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A posthumous book of essays by Clifford Geertz. Alas, it is too late for Geertz to learn from us, but not us from him, his haunting dictum notwithstanding: “There is nothing so dead as a dead academic ...

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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 – ...

Associate Professor of Anthropology Janet McIntosh is the recipient of the 2010 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, given to “an outstanding recent work in the field,” for her book ...