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Clifford Geertz

1926 - 2006

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clifford Geertz is the 13th most popular anthropologist (down from 12th in 2019), the 1,173rd most popular biography from United States (down from 885th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Anthropologist.

Clifford Geertz was a cultural anthropologist who focused on the interpretation of culture. He is most famous for his theory of "thick description" which is a way of understanding a culture from the inside out.

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Among anthropologists, Clifford Geertz ranks 13 out of 93. Before him are A. L. Kroeber, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, and Gregory Bateson. After him are Eugène Dubois, Birutė Galdikas, Knud Rasmussen, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Mary Leakey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Clifford Geertz ranks 54. Before him are Aaron Klug, Alcides Ghiggia, Neal Cassady, Richard Crenna, Abdus Salam, and Maria Schell. After him are George Habash, Tony Bennett, Vivian Maier, John G. Kemeny, Murray Rothbard, and Margot Frank. Among people deceased in 2006, Clifford Geertz ranks 37. Before him are Clay Regazzoni, Robert Altman, Joseph Barbera, Bülent Ecevit, Paul Mauriat, and Alida Valli. After him are Seymour Martin Lipset, Claude Jade, Romano Mussolini, Telmo Zarra, Markus Wolf, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clifford Geertz ranks 1,173 out of 20,380. Before him are Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Charles Best (1899), John Dos Passos (1896), Thorstein Veblen (1857), and Mark Zuckerberg (1984). After him are Bill Evans (1929), L. Ron Hubbard (1911), Robert Wagner (1930), James Cromwell (1940), Sting (1959), and John J. Pershing (1860).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Clifford Geertz ranks 5. Before him are Lewis H. Morgan (1818), A. L. Kroeber (1876), Margaret Mead (1901), and Ruth Benedict (1887). After him are Marvin Harris (1927), Edward T. Hall (1914), Ann Dunham (1942), Marshall Sahlins (1930), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), David Graeber (1961), and Edwin H. Colbert (1905).

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