15 Dec

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Clifford Geertz (1926-2006): An American cultural anthropologist, and scholar.  He considered himself a sociologist, and philosopher as well.  He known for his “thick description” concept of culture; and his ethnographic research in Indonesia and Morocco. He was a proponent of interpreting symbols, which give meaning and order to people’s lives.