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A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting mood...

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What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a ph...

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Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most inst...

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Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It ...

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The Interpretation of Cultures

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the les...

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Clifford Geertz

Anthropologist

Born: 1926-08-23

Died: 2006-10-30

Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist and Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is known for his work in the field of symbolic anthropology.More