Alter | 99 Jahre |
Beruf | Anthropologe, Hochschullehrer, Soziologe |
Geburtsdatum | Montag, 23. August 1926 |
Geburtsort | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Clifford James Geertz war ein US-amerikanischer Ethnologe, Kulturanthropologe und Sozialwissenschaftler. Er gilt als bedeutendster Vertreter der interpretativen Ethnologie. Geertz war Professor an der University of Chicago (1960–1970), am Institute for Advanced Study (1970–2000) und der Princeton University (1975–2000). |
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
