Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this collection of personal and revealing essays, he ...

IMD has been honored with a CHF 5m donation from alumnus Douglas Geertz to support research on enhancing economic prosperity ...

Early in his career, Douglas Geertz (MBA 1988) witnessed Swedish government aid to Mozambique literally going up in smoke.

Geertz, Clifford. Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. Princeton: Princeford University Press, 1995. German Advisory Council on ...

I wanted to know—and I’m an anthropologist, so this is really ethnography—what it was like from the students’ perspective or from “the native’s point of view,” as American anthropologist Clifford ...

Joe Comfort, who was unhoused, spent a lot of time in downtown New Haven cleaning windows and cars to make money and pushed ...

“If what happens to the fool also happens to me,” asks the writer of Ecclesiastes, “then why have I been so very wise?” (2:15). Wisdom literature, as Clifford Geertz pointed out, teaches that the ...

The White Rock, B.C., man charged in random attacks in downtown Vancouver that left one victim dead and another with a ...

Pages 173-92 in Studying the Religious Mind: Methodology in the Cognitive Science of Religion. Edited by Armin Geertz with Leonardo Ambasciano, Esther Eidinow, Luther H. Martin, Kristoffer L. Nielbo, ...

Totem Poles are carved wooden pillars made by the First Nations of the Northwest Coast. Totem poles are important symbols for BC Northwest Coast peoples. Several kinds of totem poles were carved by ...

International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2016), pp. 982-1012 (31 pages) Building upon case-based evidence this paper explores the role of leaders in Ecomanglar, a community-based ...

“We’re reviving the presence down here,” added Sarah Nikkel, Best Video’s board president. Eva Geertz, operations manager for the library, mentioned before the film began that she had actually worked ...