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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."
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.
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 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
She then studied anthropology at the University of Chicago with Clifford Geertz and obtained her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1970 for her fieldwork among the Sherpas in Nepal. [3] She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and the University of California, Los ...
The term 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 bonds between family members. Shils was the first one who used this term in 1957 to describe the bonds between family members.
Epochalism is an attitude of respect for the progressive spirit of the age and for social and technological advancement, which was contrasted by Clifford Geertz with what he termed the (essentialist) valorisation of traditional values. He viewed this distinction as a central social polarity pervading developing nations.
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".