Throughout the 1960s, Geertz taught and worked at the University of Chicago, where he also published the results of his fieldwork in Indonesia. He became and remains a highly influential figure in American anthropology. After earning a PhD as an anthropologist from Harvard University in 1956, he expanded his field studies to Bali and Sumatra.
In the mid 1950s, he spent two and a half years on the Indonesian island of Java, observing the religious and agricultural aspects of its inhabitants' livelihood. He served two years in the US Navy during the second world war, after which he studied English and Philosophy. "The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves ensembles, which the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong." - Clifford Geertz Biography and History Ĭlifford Geertz was an American anthropologist born in San Francisco.
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