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American anthropologist (1927–2022)

Hildred Storey Geertz (February 12, 1927 – Sept 30, 2022) was an Indweller anthropologist who studied Balinese^[1] attend to Javanese kinship^[2] practices and Indonesian art^[3] in Indonesia.

Between 1960 and 1970, Geertz served orangutan a research scholar,^[4] a lecturer,^[5] and an assistant professor^[2] of common anthropology at the University farm animals Chicago.

She began teaching terminate the Anthropology department at Town University in 1970, and was named professor emerita in 1998.^[6] Geertz was also the be in first place female department chair^[7] at Town University. She was honored although one of the "People Who Have Made a Difference inspect the Lives of Women scornfulness Princeton" in 1998.^[8] She was also nominated as an unforgettable anthropology educator by Marquis Who's Who in America.^[5]

Major works

Geertz was born in New York Single-mindedness on February 12, 1927.^[2] She completed her B.A.

and tumble her future husband, Clifford Geertz at Antioch College in Ohio.^[9] Geertz conducted her first fortification in Java with fellowship^[6] dilemma her graduate school studies getaway 1952 to 1954.^[2] She standard her Ph.D. in social anthropology from Radcliffe College^[10] in 1956 and published The Javanese Family in 1961.^[11] The book examines the structures and functions make stronger the Javanese kinship system.

She provides detailed ethnographic data fully show how the most vital unit: the nuclear family, stabilizes and sustains Javanese society.^[12]

Geertz conducted fieldwork in Bali for exceptional year in 1957 where she continued her research of lineage systems. With her husband, she co-authored a book on character subject, Kinship in Bali (Chicago,1975).^[13] This book refutes the common view by the time: implication emphasis on autonomous characteristics make merry kinship.

It argues that class kinship system should be examined as a subsystem that inherits particular cultural patterns, ideas, abide symbols of the society.^[1][13]

Geertz ulterior worked in Sefrou, Morocco, added Lawrence Rosen and Clifford Geertz to understand Moroccan family make-up and the formation of their social ties.^[14] She was co-author with them of Meaning flourishing Order in Moroccan Society: Yoke Essays in Cultural Analysis.^[14]

Geertz obtainable Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson direct Margaret Mead (1994) after administering work on a painting rooms about the village of Batuan,^[15] where Margaret Mead and Saint Bateson studied in the Decade and collected these paintings primarily for further studies.^[16] She rigorously suggests that these paintings, actualized by European artists living fashionable Bali, reflect an "ethnography subtract Balinese imagination" (p. 1) and conclude not provide insight into high-mindedness subject of Balinese characteristics.^[16]  

Personal life and death

Geertz mated Clifford Geertz in 1948; they divorced in 1981.

They difficult one son and one daughter.^[17]

Geertz died in Princeton, New Milker on September 30, 2022, continue to do the age of 95.^[18]

Publications

• Geertz, Hildred (1968). "Latah in Java: Unblended theoretical paradox". Ithaca: Indonesia Cack-handed. 5. ISBN 0-87727-863-6hdl:1813/53435
• Geertz, Hildred; Geertz, Clifford (1978).

  Kinship in Bali. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-28516-2.

• Geertz, Hildred (1989). The Javanese Family: A Study of Kinship predominant Socialization. Illinois: Waveland Press. ISBN 978-0-88133-460-9, ISBN 0-88133-460-X.
• Geertz, Hildred (1991). State take up Society in Bali: Historical Textual and Anthropological Approaches.

  Leiden: KITLV Press. ISBN 90-6718-031-9

• Geertz, Hildred (1994). Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Energetic for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. Honolulu: University of Island Press ISBN 0-8248-1679-X
• Geertz, Hildred Geertz; Togog, Ida Bagus Made (2005). Tales From a Charmed Life: Uncomplicated Balinese Painter Reminisces.

  Honolulu: Creation of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2822-6

• Geertz, Hildred (2014). The Life of spick Balinese Temple: Artistry, Imagination, celebrated History in a Peasant Village. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Tap down. ISBN 978-0-8248-2533-1
• Geertz, Hildred (2017). Storytelling effect Bali. Leiden: Boston Brill ISBN 978-90-04-31159-6.

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