Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)
From the Review
March 23, 2006: Among the Infidels
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis
June 9, 2005: 'Very Bad News' (letter)
March 24, 2005: Very Bad News
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Catastrophe: Risk and Response by Richard A. Posner
October 7, 2004: Morality Tale
Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian by Orin Starn
Ishi in Three Centuries edited by Karl Kroeber and Clifton Kroeber
July 3, 2003: Which Way to Mecca? Part II
Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel
Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes
The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror by Stephen Schwartz
Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman
The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change by Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society by Riaz Hassan
After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy by Noah Feldman
The Future of Political Islam by Graham E. Fuller
June 12, 2003: Which Way to Mecca?
What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict Between Islam and Christianity by M.J. Akbar
Islam in a Globalizing World by Thomas W. Simons Jr.
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
September 26, 2002: The Last Humanist
A Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art by E.H. Gombrich
October 18, 2001: The Visit
A Society Without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China by Cai Hua, translated from the French by Asti Hustvedt
February 8, 2001: Life Among the Anthros
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney
May 11, 2000: Indonesia: Starting Over
October 22, 1998: Deep Hanging Out
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians by Pierre Clastres, translated by Paul Auster
Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century by Clifford. James
April 10, 1997: Learning With Bruner
The Culture of Education by Jerome Bruner
November 30, 1995: Culture War
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere
How 'Natives' Think, About Captain Cook, for Example by Marshall Sahlins
April 7, 1994: Life on the Edge
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
November 19, 1992: Genet's Last Stand
Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet, translated by Barbara Bray, Introduction by Edmund White
November 8, 1990: A Lab of One's Own
Feminism and Science edited by Nancy Tuana
The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science by Londa Schiebinger
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science by Donna Haraway
February 16, 1989: A South Sea Renaissance
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680: Vol. I, The Lands below the Winds by Anthony Reid
February 28, 1985: The Ultimate Ghetto
The Last Arab Jews: The Communities of Jerba, Tunisia by Abraham L. Udovitch, by Lucette Valensi
December 2, 1982: Understanding Islam (letter)
May 27, 1982: Conjuring with Islam
Muslim Society by Ernest Gellner
Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society by Roy P. Mottahedeh
On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies by Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini translated and annotated by Hamid Algar
Studies on Islam translated and edited by Merlin L. Swartz
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W. Said
Islam in the Modern World and Other Studies by Elie Kedourie
April 3, 1980: Sociosexology (letter)
January 24, 1980: Sociosexology
The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Donald Symons
January 26, 1978: Stir Crazy
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan
December 11, 1975: Mysteries of Islam
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol. 1: The Classical Age of Islam by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol. 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol. 3: The Gunpowder Empire and Modern Times by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
April 22, 1971: In Search of North Africa
Saints of the Atlas by Ernest Gellner
Revolution and Political Leadership: Algeria 1954-1968 by William B. Quandt
Wolves in the City: The Death of French Algeria by Paul Henissart
The Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
Change at Shebika: Report from a North African Village by Jean Duvignaud
Ramparts of Clay written by Jean Duvignaud, directed by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli
November 20, 1969: Gandhi: Non-Violence as Therapy
Gandhi's Truth, or the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson
September 14, 1967: Under the Mosquito Net
A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term by Bronislaw Malinowski
Coral Gardens and their Magic: I: Soil Tilling and Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands II: The Language of Magic and Gardening by Bronislaw Malinowski
Books by Clifford Geertz
Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics (2000)
After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist (1995)
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author (1988)
Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (1983)
Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali (1980)
Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society: Three Essays in Cultural Analysis (1979)
The Religion of Java (1976)
The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (1973)
Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia (1971)
Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia (1963)