Geertz, Clifford (James)

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GEERTZ, Clifford (James)

GEERTZ, Clifford (James). American, b. 1926. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology. Career: Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1970-. Research Associate, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Indonesia, 1957-58; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1958-59; Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1959-60; Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 1960-61, Associate Professor, 1961-64, and Professor, 1964-70, University of Chicago. Eastman Professor, Oxford University, 1978-79. Chairman, Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations, 1968-69. Publications: The Development of the Javanese Economy: A Socio-Cultural Approach, 1956; The Religion of Java, 1960; Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia, 1963; Peddlers and Princes: Social Change and Economic Modernization in Two Indonesian Towns, 1963; The Social History of an Indonesian Town, 1965; Person, Time and Conduct in Bali: An Essay in Cultural Analysis, 1966; Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia, 1968; The Interpretation of Cultures, 1973; (with H. Geertz) Kinship in Bali, 1975; (with L. Rosen and H. Geertz) Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society, 1979; Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali, 1980; Local Knowledge, 1983; Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author, 1988; After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist, 1995; Available Light, 2000. EDITOR: Old Societies and New States, 1963; Myth, Symbol and Culture, 1974. Address: School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, U.S.A.

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