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	Clifford Geertz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clifford James Geertz (born August 23, 1926 in San Francisco) is an American anthropologist serving as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
		At the University of Chicago, Geertz became a "champion of symbolic anthropology", which gives prime attention to the role of thought (of "symbols") in society.
		Culture, outlined by Geertz in his famous book The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), is "a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which people communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life." The function of culture is to impose meaning on the world and make it understandable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clifford_Geertz (442 words)

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		Geertz defines this term as "a historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life" (p.
		The basic assumption Geertz' works rest upon is the notion that since people basically act according to the system of meanings they have, it is the job of sociologists/anthropologists to interpret these meanings and provide for their description.
		Geertz says: "Unlike genes, and other nonsymbolic information sources, which are only models for, not models of, culture patterns have an intrinsic double aspect: they give meaning, that is, objective conceptual form, to social and psychological reality both by shaping themselves to it and by shaping it to themselves" (p.
	ssr1.uchicago.edu /NEWPRE/CULT98/Geertz1.html (2893 words)

	Clifford Geertz on Ethnography and Social Construction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Geertz sees rhetoric and composition as similar in many ways to anthropology, especially in the relative youth of both disciplines and in the fact that neither has "a distinct subject matter" or a "real method" of research.
		Geertz is particularly frustrated with attempts to maintain a sharp distinction between the humanities and the sciences.
		Geertz counters, are succumbing to a simplistic two-cultures notion that fails to account for the complexity of the intellectual universe.
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/11.2/Articles/geertz.htm (10376 words)

	Reader Response - Clifford Geertz on Writing and Rhetoric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Geertz is an articulate scholar whose work transcends the boundaries of his own discipline; he is also a self-conscious stylist who has reflected for some time about what it means to be a writer, an author.
		Geertz is a forceful advocate of the usefulness of ethnographic research; this interview includes a number of comments directly applicable to those conducting such research in composition studies.
		Geertz asks many sophisticated questions about the relationship of authors and texts—questions that certainly need to be asked by those in the social sciences who have looked to science, not the humanities, for models and methods.
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/12.1/ReaderResponse/2.htm (1703 words)

	a case study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Geertz himself is perhaps the best example of this Cases and interpretation ideal of explanation for it was he in the early 1960s who first alerted the field of anthropology to the error of its ways.
		Geertz points to the religious practice of worship as an example of one area of social life which is difficult to explain with a game metaphor.
		Geertz does not specify what these broader cultural changes are, he simply wants to point out that academe is never totally isolated from the social world; quite the contrary, academe is influenced by and influences the social world very directly.
	www.accd.edu /sac/interdis/2370/casest.html (2707 words)

	yokim.net / [Sophonisba Gathman] Clifford Geertz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Geertz opposes the idea of culture as a waterproof, flawless whole, instead asserting that culture is full of contradictions and competing interests, a view later adopted by post-modernists.
		Geertz believes culture should be read as a collection of texts, the ethnographer analyzing the text and trying to understand the lives of the characters.
		Geertz believes the object of ethnography is the “stratified hierarchy of meaningful structures in terms of which twitches, winks, fake-winks, parodies, and rehearsals of parodies are produced, perceived, and interpreted, and without which they would not exist” (Geertz 1973).
	yokim.net /text/104 (554 words)

	American Ethnologist - Online Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Geertz was mentored at Antioch in the early 1950s by a philosophy professor, who encouraged him to pursue anthropology at Harvard’s innovative (now defunct) Department of Social Relations, where he would come to have contact with visionaries such as Talcott Parsons, Jerome Bruner, David Schneider, Wilbert Moore, and Pitirim Sorokin.
		Geertz relates that he entered academia in the best of times, viewed against the corporate university of today, but his is nonetheless a curious claim given what many leftist academics and some indigenous anthropologists (e.g., Gene Weltfish) experienced as a consequence of the McCarthy years.
		Geertz concludes, moreover, that the peculiar blending of informant and friend in fieldwork is not, as apologists for positivism claim, problematic but provides an opportunity to examine the types of values implicit in social scientific research.
	www.aaanet.org /aes/bkreviews/result_details.cfm?bk_id=1374 (914 words)

	Big Ideas. Big Thinkers. Clifford Geertz \| Thirteen/WNET
		Geertz is known for breaking away from the 1950s emphasis on scientistic inquiry and for introducing a more metaphorical and literary style to the discipline of anthropology, according to his biographer Fred Inglis, author of CLIFFORD GEERTZ: CULTURE, CUSTOM, AND ETHICS (1999).
		Geertz is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and scholarly awards, the author of twelve books, and the co-author and editor of a number of others.
		The New Criterion - The Ethnocentrism of Clifford Geertz
	www.thirteen.org /bigideas/geertz.html (411 words)

	Clifford Geertz, “Description: Toward and Interpretive Theory of Culture,” The Interpretation of Culture, (NY: ...
		Clifford Geertz (1926-present) began his academic career at Antioch College in Ohio as an English major and went on to study anthropology at Harvard.
		Geertz is best known for his attention to systems of meaning—the symbolic—in anthropological analysis of culture, how cultures change, and the study of culture at large.
		And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is… There are a number of ways of escaping this—turning culture into folklore and collecting it, turning it into traits and counting it, turning it into institutions and classifying it, turning it into structures and toying with it.
	academic.csuohio.edu /as227/spring2003/geertz.htm (1122 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Geertz has certainly had an authentic anthropological experience, he and his wife immersing themselves in the Balinese culture in order to study it.
		Geertz also relies on a tightly structured form later in his article when he begins to sum up his ideas of the relevance of the cockfight to Balinese society in general.
		Geertz, falling in line with Stone, has mixed the quantitative 'reality' of the social historian, and mixed it with the imagination (intellectual hedonism?) of the narrative historian, along with a strange and heady dose of the quasi- philosophical esoterica of the anthropologist.
	www.mousetrap.net /~mouse/uta/COCKFIGH.TXT (425 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Geertz posits that culture should not be seen as a science in search of law but instead as an interpretation in search of meaning.
		Geertz fails to explain how these templates come to be and be modified but posits that they become "common sense" of Platonic propositions and continue to be so.
		Geertz was far ahead of them all, perhaps due to an enormously rich empirical material - which both enriches the "thick" theories he has as well as function as a pedagogic device to illustrate the points he makes.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0465097197 (1381 words)

	Clifford Geertz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clifford James Geertz was born on August 23, 1926 in San Francisco.
		He taught or held fellowships at a number of schools before joining the anthropology staff of the University of Chicago(1960 - 70); he then became professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University from 1970 - 2000, now emeritus.
		Culture, according to Geertz, is "a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which people communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life." The function of culture is to impose meaning on the world and make it understandable.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Clifford_Geertz (347 words)

	Amazon.com: Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author: Books: Clifford Geertz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Geertz compares the literary styles of Claude Levi-Strauss, Edward Evans-Pritchard and Bronislaw Malinowski, among others, and calls upon present-day ethnographers to enliven and substantiate their work by paying attention not only to what they write, but how they write as well.
		Geertz offers ethnographers a conceptual framework that allows them freedom and control, a way to talk with confidence about their people group studied, a way to write new texts that might enlarge the sense of what everyday life is about.
		Geertz exemplifies this by saying that death is something universal, something that happens everywhere, among every kind of people, no matter which race, color or gender, whether adult or children; yet anthropologists have minimized this fact when describing death within their people group by focusing on the exotic, curious and sometimes violent rituals.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0804717478?v=glance (1271 words)

	Amazon.com: Negara: Books: Clifford Geertz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The main purpose of Geertz's study is to delineate the general structure of the Negara by focusing on one particularly well-documented case, that of Bali in the era preceding the Dutch invasion of 1906.
		Geertz, a social anthropologist at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, is a prolific scholar on Balinese and Indonesian political and state organization.
		Geertz traces the sociological and historical interplay of state formation and dissolution and power and status distribution in 14th to 19th century Bali-an island symbolically caught in a parallel tug of nature between the tranquil Java sea to the north and the treacherous Indian Ocean to the south.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691007780?v=glance (1859 words)

	Doug Renselle's Review of Clifford Geertz' Available Light
		Geertz coalesces a similar assessment, "Anthropology, one of whose vocations, at least, is to locate…demarcations, to discriminate…breaks and describe…continuities, has fumbled with [charting demarcations] from the beginning, and fumbles with it still." Chapter XI, p.
		Geertz and any other anthropologist studying in a foreign culture pretend to be in that culture while, both they and their informants know — that pretense is only fictional role playing — unless said anthropologists extensively immerse themselves in their informants' culture.
		Geertz calls this cultural interrelationship/Poisson bracket noncommutativity, "irreversibility." Analogously, a quanton of an anthropologist visiting/immersing in a culture is grossly omnifferent from a quanton of an anthropologist and an informant visiting said anthropologist's local culture.
	www.quantonics.com /Review_of_Clifford_Geertz_Available_Light.html (14503 words)

	Geertz, C.: Negara: The Theatre State in 19th Century Bali.
		Here Geertz applied his widely influential method of cultural interpretation to the myths, ceremonies, rituals, and symbols of a precolonial state.
		In Bali Geertz found negara to be a "theatre state," governed by rituals and symbols rather than by force.
		Much of Geertz's previous work--including his world-famous essay on the Balinese cockfight--can be seen as leading up to the full portrait of the "poetics of power" that Negara so vividly depicts.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/756.html (317 words)

	Richard Shweder's Review of Clifford Geertz' Available Light - Personal Permission to Use in Quantonics
		Geertz is not) think he is a middle-of-the-road liberal and an antiquarian who still believes there is some good work to be done with that old fashioned idea of "culture".
		Geertz describes the aims of pluralism: "Imagining difference (which of course does not mean making it up, but making it evident) remains a science of which we all have a need." (page 85).
		Geertz is critical not only of the intellectual fanatics in the academy (the total systems builders, the "it all comes down to" types, those who fancy "theory-of-everything" notions) but of the infidels (the skeptical anti-science postmodernists) as well.
	www.quantonics.com /Review_of_Available_Light_by_Richard_Shweder.html (1991 words)

	Now their false posts attack Dr. Geertz!
		Geertz was able to go to court and put his reputation on the line to help his patient (myself), because he, along with my wife Jaime, were the primary material witnesses to my interaction and involvement with Scientology from 1979-1990.
		Geertz is a very compassionate man who has never abandoned me as a patient and a friend, even though I betrayed him over and over again while in the cult.
		Geertz does not deserve the kind of abuse he is getting at the hands of the Dead Agent Club.
	www.xs4all.nl /~fishman/anonym3.html (672 words)

	Discussion Questions for Geertz, Kuper Roseberry and Lee
		Geertz- Geertz says he agrees with Weber's definition of culture as "those webs" of significance that man spins for himself.
		Geertz goes on to stress how anthropology is more like literary criticism then a cipher clerk.
		In his “Interpretation of Cultures”, Geertz describes the conditions of cultural theories, and states the second condition as cultural theories being unpredictable.
	www.faculty.fairfield.edu /dcrawford/05s_questions_2.htm (1328 words)

	Clifford Geertz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Clifford Geertz first studied anthropology in Harvard University.
		Geertz and his wife were both accepted at Harvard to study Social Relations as they wanted to pursue their degrees in Anthropology.
		Geertz is now Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study located in Princeton, New Jersey.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/fghij/geertz_clifford.html (274 words)

	Geertz, Clifford J. - AnthroBase - Dictionary of Anthropology: A searchable database of anthropological texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Geertz did fieldwork in Marocco and, most importantly, in Indonesia (Bali, Java).
		These interests - and Geertz's colorful and poetic style of writing - made him a popular figure among the American postmodernists in the 1980's.
		Geertz was influenced by a number of theoreticians, see for example: Cassirer, Ernst; Langer, Susanne;
	www.anthrobase.com /Dic/eng/pers/geertz_clifford_j.htm (142 words)

	Affidavit of Robert Vaughn Young 9 Mar 1994
		Thus Dr. Geertz is the target of Scientology's equivalent of "The Final Solution," where a profession has become a universal scapegoat.
		Thus Dr. Geertz is viewed as a part of the international (and intergalactic) conspiracy that must be annihilated before Hubbard and Scientology can reign on Earth.
		Geertz said is true, that Fishman was told to "end cycle" and to kill Dr. Geertz.
	www.xenu.net /archive/go/legal/rvy.htm (6929 words)

	Fishman's Malicious Prosecution Complaint
		Fishman accepted Fred Hare's instructions to murder Dr. Geertz which were to pour cyanide into a gallon jar of orange juice which was customarily kept in the refrigerator at Dr. Geertz's downtown Fort Lauderdale office, and subsequently offer it to Dr. Geertz.
		Fishman to copy down the license plate numbers of Dr. Geertz's patients in his parking lot, in order to later contact these other patients in order to discredit Dr. Geertz by telling them that Dr. Geertz was a Nazi war criminal who was laundering drug money, and that he had fondled his female patients.
		Fishman and Geertz were protected by absolute privilege because the portion of the Time article which contained the allegedly defamatory statements made by Fishman was a true and fair report of Fishman and Geertz's testimony at Fishman's sentencing hearing.
	www.xs4all.nl /~fishman/malpro01.html (5692 words)

	Amazon.ca: After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The other focal point of this affecting scholarly memoir, Pare, Indonesia, a town in central Java where Geertz has done fieldwork since 1952, was wracked by internecine combat among Islamic, nationalist and Communist parties until the army imposed military rule in 1965.
		Using his fieldwork in these towns as a prism, Princeton anthropologist Geertz charts the transformation of cultural anthropology from a study of "primitive" people to a multidisciplinary investigation of a particular culture's symbolic systems, its interactions with the larger forces of history and modernization.
		A Professor of Social Science at Princeton for decades, Geertz gave a series of lectures at the University of Jerusalem and these were the result.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0674008715 (622 words)

	Geertz: Thick Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In his first chapter in The Interpretation of Cultures, Clifford Geertz discusses the role of the ethnographer.
		Broadly, the ethnographer's aim is to observe, record, and analyze a culture.
		Ultimately, Geertz hopes that the ethnographer's deeper understanding of the signs will open and/or increase the dialogue among different cultures.
	www.amst.umd.edu /Research/cultland/annotations/Geertz1.html (144 words)

	Agricultural Involution (Clifford Geertz) - review
		This involved putting even more labour into paddy field cultivation, increasing per hectare output while maintaining per capita output.
		Geertz's thesis is that this process was tied up with the development of sugar as a smallholder cash crop complementary with rice production.
		Critics have attacked Geertz's ideas in a number of places, and some of his conclusions are now considered doubtful.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Agricultural_Involution.html (232 words)

	Book Report on Clifford Geertz, Ralph Ellison and (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The works of the noted authors Clifford Geertz, Ralph Ellison and Susan Griffin explore the world beneath the words.
		They explore and interpret three different cultures that are not alike in their practices, yet similar because of the underlying instincts that are inherent in all people.
		By showing the instincts that lay beneath the surface in reference to laughter, the way that a culture demonstrates itвЂ™s social positions, and how there is a need for structure a society the three authors demonstrate the meaning behind the actions of a people in a society.
	www.newessay.com /database/Clifford_Geertz_Ralph_Ellison-100550.html (176 words)

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