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Clifford James Geertz (/ ɡ ɜːr t s / ⓘ; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades... the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States."
Hildred Storey Geertz (February 12, 1927 – September 30, 2022) was an American anthropologist who studied Balinese [1] and Javanese kinship [2] practices and Balinese art [3] in Indonesia. Between 1960 and 1970, Geertz served as a research scholar, [ 4 ] a lecturer, [ 5 ] and an assistant professor [ 2 ] of social anthropology at the ...
Geertz and his wife were shocked when the man—"[their] host of five minutes"—lied to the police by telling them that Geertz and his wife had not been at the fight but instead had been engaged in ethnographic research, talking to the man and his family about their culture. [4] The next day, the village opened up to the couple.
Geertz is a German surname. People with this surname include: Clifford Geertz (1926–2006), U.S. anthropologist; Hildred Geertz (1927–2022; née Storey), U.S. anthropologist, wife of Clifford Geertz; Julius Geertz (1837–1902), German artist; Uwe Geertz, U.S. psychiatrist involved in Church of Scientology
The American anthropologist Clifford Geertz in the 1960s divided the Javanese community into three aliran or "streams": santri, abangan and priyayi. According to him, the Santri followed an orthodox interpretation Islam , the abangan was the followed a syncretic form of Islam that mixed Hindu and animist elements (often termed Kejawen ), and ...
Clifford Geertz (1926–2006), American anthropologist; Clifford Goldstein (born 1955), American author, Seventh-day Adventist editor; Clifford Goodman (1866–1911), Barbados athlete in cricket; Chris Graham (boxer) (Clifford Graham, 1900–1986), Canadian boxer; Clifford Grey (1887–1941), British songwriter, actor (also known as Clifford Gray)
The term, coined by Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) in 1980 in reference to political practice in the nineteenth-century Balinese Negara, [1] has since expanded in usage. Hunik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung, for example, regard contemporary North Korea as a theatre state. [ 2 ]
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological 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 cultivation in Indonesia had produced greater social complexity without significant technological or political change, a process Geertz terms—"involution".