ANTHROPOLOGIST

Clifford Geertz

1926 - 2006

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Clifford James Geertz ( ; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clifford Geertz has received more than 925,619 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Clifford Geertz is the 12th most popular anthropologist (down from 11th in 2019), the 885th most popular biography from United States (down from 588th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Anthropologist.

Clifford Geertz was a cultural anthropologist who focused on the interpretation of culture. He is most famous for his theory of "thick description" which is a way of understanding a culture from the inside out.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Clifford Geertz ranks 12 out of 93. Before him are Lewis H. Morgan, Paul Broca, Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Gregory Bateson. After him are Knud Rasmussen, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Eugène Dubois, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Edward T. Hall, and Mary Douglas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Clifford Geertz ranks 51. Before him are Abdus Salam, Alcides Ghiggia, Neal Cassady, David Attenborough, Vivian Maier, and Ingrid Thulin. After him are Richard Crenna, Harry Dean Stanton, Ingeborg Bachmann, George Martin, Henry Way Kendall, and Tony Bennett. Among people deceased in 2006, Clifford Geertz ranks 35. Before him are Jack Palance, Clay Regazzoni, Robert Altman, Lennart Meri, Raymond Davis Jr., and Alida Valli. After him are Alexander Litvinenko, Markus Wolf, Bülent Ecevit, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Shohei Imamura.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clifford Geertz ranks 885 out of 20,380. Before him are Steve Buscemi (1957), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), Linda Hamilton (1956), John L. Hall (1934), John Clauser (1942), and Michelle Obama (1964). After him are Winona Ryder (1971), Dizzy Gillespie (1917), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Carole Lombard (1908), John Holmes (1944), and Courteney Cox (1964).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Clifford Geertz ranks 4. Before him are Lewis H. Morgan (1818), Margaret Mead (1901), and Ruth Benedict (1887). After him are Edward T. Hall (1914), Marshall Sahlins (1930), A. L. Kroeber (1876), Ann Dunham (1942), Marvin Harris (1927), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), David Graeber (1961), and John Lloyd Stephens (1805).

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