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Clifford Geertz (1926–2006)

Author of The Interpretation Of Cultures. Selected Essays

Includes the names: C Geertz, Cl Geertz, Cliford Geertz, Klifords Gīrcs, Clifford Geertz, Geertz Clifford, Clifford Geertz, Clifford Geertz; Editor

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Works by Clifford Geertz

The Interpretation Of Cultures. Selected Essays 1,186 copies, 4 reviews
Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology 279 copies, 2 reviews
Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia 178 copies
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author 169 copies
Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. 145 copies, 1 review
Negara: The Theatre State In Nineteenth-Century Bali 91 copies, 1 review
After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist 75 copies
The Religion of Java 71 copies
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia 57 copies
Peddlers and Princes: Social Development and Economic Change in Two… 44 copies
Daedalus, Winter 1972: Myth, Symbol, and Culture (Editor) 42 copies, 1 review
Dichte Beschreibung. Beiträge zum Verstehen kultureller Systeme. 24 copies
Old societies and new States; the quest for modernity in Asia and Africa 15 copies
Life among the Anthros and Other Essays 14 copies

Kinship in Bali (Author) 14 copies

The social history of an Indonesian town 5 copies

El surgimiento de la antropología posmoderna 4 copies

Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society: Three Essays in Cultural Analysis 4 copies

Mondo globale, mondi locali: cultura e politica alla fine del 20. secolo 4 copies

Clifford Geertz by his colleagues 3 copies

Anti anti-relativismo / Contro l'ineffabilità culturale 3 copies

Los usos de la diversidad / The Uses of Diversity (Spanish Edition) 3 copies

Bali 2 copies

Kultuuride tõlgendamine. Valitud esseed 2 copies

Az értelmezés hatalma. Antropológiai írások 2 copies

Nova luz sobre a antropologia 1 copy

Wiedza lokalna : dalsze eseje z zakresu antropologii interpretatywnej 1 copy

Agama Jawa : abangan, santri, priyayi dalam kebudayaan Jawa 1 copy

Person, Time and Conduct in Bali: An Essay in Cultural Analysis [Cultural… 1 copy

Welt in Stücken. Kultur und Politik am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts 1 copy

'Culture war' in NYRB XLII/19, 30 Nov 1995 [review of Obeyesekere's… 1 copy

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Also by Clifford Geertz

Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History (Contributor) 153 copies, 1 review
Sociolinguistics: Selected Readings (Contributor) 44 copies
Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion (Contributor) 41 copies
Ideology and Discontent (Contributor) 8 copies
Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia (Contributor) 7 copies

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Geertz, Hildred (first wife)

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National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (1989)

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