Clifford Geertz
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ Anthropology Outline History Types Archaeological Biological Social Cultural Linguistic Archaeological Bioarchaeological Environmental Ethnoarchaeological Feminist Maritime Paleoethnobotanical Zooarchaeological Biological Anthrozoological Biocultural Evolutionary Forensic Molecular Neurological Nutritional Palaeoanthropological Primatological Social Cultural Applied Art Cognitive Cyborg Development Digital Ecological Environmental Economic Political economy Historical Feminist Kinship Legal Media Medical Musical Political Psychological Public Religion Symbolic Transpersonal Urban Visual Linguistic Anthropological Descriptive Ethnological Ethnopoetical Historical Semiotic Sociological Research framework Anthropometry Ethnography (online) Ethnology Cross-cultural comparison Participant observation Holism Reflexivity Thick description Cultural relativism Ethnocentrism Emic and etic Key concepts Culture Development Ethnicity Evolution (sociocultural) Gender Kinship and descent Meme Memeplex Prehistory Race Society Value Colonialism / Postcolonialism Key theories Actor–network / Alliance theory Cross-cultural studies Cultural materialism Culture theory Feminism Functionalism Interpretive Performance studies Political economy Practice theory Structuralism Post-structuralism Systems theory Lists Anthropologists by nationality Anthropology by year Bibliography Journals Organizations Anthropology portal v t e Clifford James Geertz (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.