Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His book Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1988.
"As an anthropologist, philosopher, political scientist, literary
critic, and all-around, all-star intellectual, Clifford Geertz
helped a vast public make sense of the human condition."--Robert
Darnton, New York Review of Books
"Clifford Geertz is one of those rare scholars: the thinking
person's liberal, who spurns easy banalities."--Lionel Shriver,
Guardian (UK)
"Clifford Geertz was the foremost anthropologist of the past 40
years and perhaps the first of his trade to become world-famous....
His copious works first supplemented, then superseded the mighty
labours of the founding fathers of the discipline."--Independent
(UK)
"Clifford Geertz [was] an anthropologist whose imaginative studies
of cultural groups from other countries changed the intellectual
underpinnings of anthropology and other social sciences.... Dr.
Geertz brought a distinctly literary sensibility to the study of
anthropology with his sophisticated prose and vivid descriptions of
social customs abroad.... Dr. Geertz's ornate, allusive accounts of
other cultures came to define a new field of study called
ethnography."--Washington Post
"Clifford Geertz [was] arguably the best-known and most influential
American anthropologist of the past several decades."--Richard
Schweder, Common Knowledge
"One of the most articulate cultural anthropologists of this
generation. Geertz has consistently attempted to clarify the
meaning of 'culture' and to relate that concept to the actual
behavior of individuals and groups."--ElizabethColson, Contemporary
Sociology
"The eminent cultural anthropologist.... Mr. Geertz was considered
a founder of interpretive, or symbolic, anthropology. But his
influence extended far beyond anthropology to many of the social
sciences, and his writing had a literary flair that distinguished
him from most theorists and ethnographers."--Andrew Yarrow, New
York Times
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