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 ...

A four-day international conference, Islam Re-Observed: Clifford Geertz in Morocco, to be held December 6-9, 2007, at UCLA, will consider the work of the eminent anthropologist Clifford Geertz ...

Abstract of paper to be presented by Lionel Obadia, University of Lyon, at the conference "Islam Re-Observed: Clifford Geertz in Morocco" Clifford Geertz’s well-known definition of religion (1963) ...

Clifford Geertz, who has died aged 80 of complications following heart surgery, was one of the most influential anthropologists of his generation. He published important monographs on religion, ...

In a 1995 article in The New Statesman, the anthropologist Jonathan Benthall wrote, "Clifford Geertz disappoints some colleagues because he comes up with no overarching theories." Benthall was right ...

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 ...

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 – ...