Clifford Geertz
Clifford James Geertz (/ɡɜːrts/ ⓘ; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades... the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
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| Born | August 23, 1926 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | October 30, 2006 (aged 80) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Known for | Thick description Epochalism |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Antioch College (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Religion in Modjokuto: A Study of Ritual Belief In A Complex Society (1956) |
| Doctoral advisor | Talcott Parsons |
| Influences | Talcott Parsons, Gilbert Ryle, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Max Weber, Paul Ricoeur, Alfred Schütz, Susanne Langer |
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| Discipline | Anthropology |
| School or tradition | Symbolic anthropology, Interpretive anthropology |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey |
| Doctoral students | Lawrence Rosen, Sherry Ortner, Paul Rabinow |
| Influenced | Stephen Greenblatt, Quentin Skinner |
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