Like a tiny number of other masters-Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu-he inspired general readers and ordinary scholars operating at lower frequencies throughout the human sciences. Anthropology, History, and Clifford Geertz Robert Darnton Clifford Geertz belonged to that rare species known as maîtres àpenser. Shortly afterhis death in October, we askedseveral historians to comment briefly on Geert^s influence on historicalinquiry. Over his distinguished career, thirty-sixyears of which were spent on thefaculty of the InstituteforAdvancedStudy, he made majorcontributions to socialand cultural theory. March/April 2007 Historically Speaking 33 The Legacy of Clifford Geertz: A Roundtable CUFFORD GEERTZ (1926-2006) WAS ONE OF THE LEADING cultural anthropologists of his time. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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