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76
Citations
197252
World Ranking
472
National Ranking
225

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1973 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Clifford Geertz was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in the United States. Throughout their academic career, they collaborated frequently with several scholars, including Richard Rorty, Charles S. Maier, J. G. A. Pocock, Joseph Frank, and Robert Jervis.

Their book publications include work released by Princeton University Press. One notable publication is Negara, published in 2021, which has accumulated sixteen citations.

Clifford Geertz received recognition through several awards, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1980 and being elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

  • Richard Rorty (collaborated on 2 occasions)
  • Charles S. Maier (collaborated on 1 occasion)
  • J. G. A. Pocock (collaborated on 1 occasion)
  • Joseph Frank (collaborated on 1 occasion)
  • Robert Jervis (collaborated on 1 occasion)

  • Negara, 2021, Princeton University Press

Best Publications

  • The interpretation of cultures: Selected essays

    Clifford Geertz

  • The Interpretation of Cultures

    Richard Fenn;Clifford Geertz

  • Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology

    Clifford Geertz

  • Thick Description: Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture

    Clifford Geertz

  • The Religion of Java

    Clifford Geertz

  • Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia

    Clifford Geertz

  • "From the Native's Point of View": On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding

    Clifford Geertz

  • Old societies and new states : the quest for modernity in Asia and Africa

    Clifford Geertz

  • Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia

    Clifford Geertz

  • Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author.

    Richard Fardon;Clifford Geertz

  • Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics

    Clifford Geertz

  • La interpretación de las culturas

    Clifford Geertz

  • After the Fact

    Clifford Geertz;Fred Saberhagen

  • Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought

    Clifford Geertz

  • Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight

    Clifford Geertz

  • The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing

    Clifford Geertz

  • A interpretação das culturas

    Clifford Geertz

  • Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali

    Clifford Geertz

  • The integrative revolution: Primordial sentiments and civil politics in the New States.

    C. Geertz

  • Works and lives : the anthropologist as author

    Clifford Geertz

  • Ideology and Discontent

    Joseph W. Elder;Clifford Geertz;Kenneth Prewitt Sheilah Rosenhack

  • Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali.

    David Hicks;Clifford Geertz

Frequent Co-Authors

James S. Coleman
James S. Coleman University of Chicago
Byron J. Good
Byron J. Good Harvard University
Richard A. Shweder
Richard A. Shweder University of Chicago
Didier Fassin
Didier Fassin Institute for Advanced Study

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