Clifford Geertz | search
Click here to view Clifford Geertz news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- Clifford Geertz – The Man who Pioneered “Thick Description” in AnthropologyOne of the pioneers in this field is Clifford Geertz, a renowned American anthropologist who popularized the concept of “thick description.” This approach aims to provide a detailed analysis of cultural practices and symbols by looking beyond surface-level observations. Table of Contents.
- Clifford Geertz: Work and Legacy | Institute for Advanced StudyClifford Geertz: Work and Legacy. Early in his career, Geertz critiqued the scientific models widely used in the social sciences. He rejected the causal determinism that so often passed for explanation and instead embraced hermeneutics.
- Clifford Geertz | Cultural theorist, Interpreter of cultures, Symbolic ...Clifford Geertz (born Aug. 23, 1926, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.—died Oct. 30, 2006, Philadelphia, Pa.) was an American cultural anthropologist, a leading rhetorician and proponent of symbolic anthropology and interpretive anthropology.
- Clifford Geertz, Cultural Anthropologist, Is Dead at 80Clifford 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...
- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF CLIFFORD GEERTZ - JSTORFor the past quarter century Clifford Geertz has legitimized a vision of anthropology that wedded intricately detailed ethnog-raphy with an interpretive imagination aimed at uncovering the implicit structures of local meaning - what he was fond of call-ing "webs of significance" that were, in his view, central to the comprehension of human ...
More
