When1: 1960
When2: 1988
Who: Clifford Geertz [Geertz, Clifford]
What: anthropologist
Where: USA
works\ Religion of Java [1960]; Agricultural Involution [1963]; Peddlers and Princes [1963]; Social History of an Indonesian Town [1965]; Islam Observed [1968]; Interpretation of Cultures [1973]; Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society [1980: with Hildred Geertz and Lawrence Rosen]; Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology [1983]; Works and Lives [1988]
Detail: He lived 1926 to 2006 and studied Java and Bali peoples. He advocated trying to interpret culture, rather than just explaining behaviors.
People live in systems of meaning {culture, Geertz}, in which actions have intention and significance, and people have knowledge and attitudes. Action meaning is public and observable.
Ideas, attitudes, and purposes lead to religion. Religion is cultural system, societal symbol system about the way world is and should be {world-view}, which builds feelings, values, and goals {ethos, sociology}. It explains evil, suffering, death, and universe. Rituals blend world-view and ethos. Participating puts people in touch with highest reality.
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