Clifford Geertz is the most influential American anthropologist of the past four decades. His writings have defined and given character to the intellectual agen

Clifford Geertz is the most influential American anthropologist of the past four decades. His writings have defined and given character to the intellectual agen

"In four brief chapters," writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, "I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparative analysis of religion

Clifford Geertz has been called ‘the most original anthropologist of his generation’ – and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the

Between 1963 and 1986, eminent American anthropologists Clifford and Hildred Geertz - together and alone - conducted ethnographic fieldwork for varying periods