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Clifford Geertz

Researcher at Institute for Advanced Study

Publications -  149
Citations -  61910

Clifford Geertz is an academic researcher from Institute for Advanced Study. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Ideology. The author has an hindex of 64, co-authored 149 publications receiving 60642 citations. Previous affiliations of Clifford Geertz include Princeton University & University of Chicago.

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The Religion of Java

TL;DR: The Religion of Java as discussed by the authors is one of the few books on the religion of a non-western people which emphasizes variation and conflict in belief as well as similarity and harmony in Javanese religious life.
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Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali

TL;DR: In this paper, Geertz applied his widely influential method of cultural interpretation to the myths, ceremonies, rituals, and symbols of a precolonial state and found that the nineteenth-century Balinese state defied easy conceptualization by the familiar models of political theory and the standard Western approaches to understand politics.
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Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight

TL;DR: Geertz as mentioned in this paper relates both the various events surrounding and the deeper cultural meaning of an example of popular culture, cockfighting on a South Pacific island, and contrasts his interpretation of engaging in “deep play” (extremely high stakes activities) with Jeremy Bentham's famous earlier characterization of irrational behavior.
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The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing

Clifford Geertz
- 17 Apr 2018 - 
TL;DR: There has been a long tradition of peasant market studies in anthropology as discussed by the authors, but much of it has been merely descriptive inductivism gone berserk, which has often been the case, skimming off the other's more generalized ideas and misapplying them.