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 ...

Clifford Geertz’ writing is characterised by its literary-oriented shape, portraying anthropology through such literary terminology as rhetoric, metaphoric, and symbolic. This writing strategy ...

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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 ...

Clifford Geertz, the eminent cultural anthropologist whose work focused on interpreting the symbols he believed give meaning and order to people's lives, died on Monday in Philadelphia. He was 80 and ...

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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, an anthropologist whose imaginative studies of cultural groups from other countries changed the intellectual underpinnings of anthropology and other social sciences, died Oct. 30 at ...

A "thick description" is the intellectual and literary act of describing what happens during an interview with a research participant. It's a reflection upon what one saw as an interpretation 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 ...

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, ...