Clifford Geertz

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August 23, 1926 in San Francisco, California, The United States

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October 30, 2006

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Science, Nonfiction, Social Sciences

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Clifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.

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Average rating: 3.89 · 1,157 ratings · 83 reviews · 24 distinct works

	The Interpretation of Cultures 4.06 avg rating — 674 ratings — published 1973 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology 3.87 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1983 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author 3.57 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia 3.67 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1968 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Religion of Java 3.62 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1960 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics 3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia 3.39 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1963 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali by Clifford Geertz, Geertz Clifford 3.55 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Myth, Symbol, and Culture 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	My rating:
	After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	My rating:

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“Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.”
― Clifford Geertz

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“There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down”
― Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures

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“It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.”
― Clifford Geertz

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