Clifford Geertz

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1. PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

   · 2018 · cited 33,847x

2. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

   · 2016 · cited 22,931x

3. Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)

   · 2008 · cited 17,485x

4. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 13,273x

5. NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease

   · 2018 · cited 9,282x

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Quotes

• “In the country of the blind, who are not as unobservant as they look, the one-eyed is not king, he is spectator.”
• “It is not against a body of uninterpreted data, radically thinned descriptions, that we must measure the cogency of our explications, but against the power of the scientific imagination to bring us into touch with the lives of strangers.”
• “There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down.'”
• “Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. It is a strange science whose most telling assertions are its most tremulously based, in which to get somewhere with the matter at hand is to intensify the suspicion, both your own and that of others, that you are not quite getting it right. But that, along with plaguing subtle people with obtuse questions, is what being an ethnographer is like.”
• “Culture is best seen not as complexes of concrete behavior patterns — customs, usages, traditions, habit clusters — as has, by and large, been the case up to now, but as a set of control mechanisms — plans, recipes, rules, instructions (what computer engineers call “programs”) — for the governing of behavior.”
• “One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1926-08-23 ) August 23, 1926, San Francisco, California, U.S.

Died

October 30, 2006 (2006-10-30) (aged 80), Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, U.S.

Known for

Thick description , Epochalism

Spouse

Hildred Geertz ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1948 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1981 ) ​

Alma mater

Antioch College ( BA ), Harvard University ( PhD )

Thesis

Religion in Modjokuto: A Study of Ritual Belief In A Complex Society (1956)

Doctoral advisor

Talcott Parsons

Influences

Talcott Parsons , Gilbert Ryle , Ludwig Wittgenstein , Max Weber , Paul Ricoeur , Alfred Schütz , Susanne Langer

Discipline

Anthropology

School or tradition

Symbolic anthropology , Interpretive anthropology

Institutions

University of Chicago , Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton, New Jersey

Doctoral students

Lawrence Rosen , Sherry Ortner , Paul Rabinow

Influenced

Stephen Greenblatt , Quentin Skinner

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Photo of Clifford Geertz on dust jacket of The Interpretation of Cultures.jpg

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