GEERTZ ON MALINOWSKI-- The Biographical Memoir--SHWEDER, 2010

14 September 2017--


Biographical Memoir-- on M field work in New Guinea and Tobriands--




https://www.sss.ias.edu/files/pdfs/Geertz_NAS_6-10-10.pdf

on Malinkowski--

"a crabbed, self-preoccupied, hypochondriacal narcissist, whose

fellow-feeling for the people he lived with was limited in the
extreme.”


OBIT IN THE GUARDIAN--
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/15/guardianobituaries.obituaries
Geertz was born in San Francisco, but was reticent about his background and little is known about his family. He recalled that "having grown up rural in the Great Depression" he had no expectations of going to university, but naval service from 1943 to 1945 gave him an opportunity.


ANTHROPOLOGY AND OUTDOOR CONTENT--
http://gwtoledo.blogspot.com/2007/11/clifford-geertz-american-anthropologist.html

Clifford Geertz was born in San Francisco in 1926. Early in his life his parents divorced and he was raised by a foster-mother. He rarely saw his own parents but once a year and did not form strong bonds with either during his formative years (Inglis 2000:3). Growing up on a farm in Northern California, Geertz was aware that his intellect was the ticket out of his rural surroundings and into the greater world. The first ticket, however, was World War II and at 17, Geertz volunteered for the Navy. He was allowed to work as an electrical technician’s mate repairing radar gear on the USS St Paul (Inglis 2000:4). He narrowly averted a potentially bloody invasion of Japan, the first atomic bomb being dropped just before the scheduled invasion.
highly influenced by Max Weber.


Clifford Geertz; Culture, Custom & Ethics, Fred Inglis, 1999


MAX WEBER--
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Max_Weber
In 1915 and 1916, he was a member of commissions that tried to retain German supremacy in Belgium and Poland after the war. Weber was a German imperialist and wanted to enlarge the German empire to the east and the west.
In 1918, Weber became a consultant to the German Armistice Commission at the Treaty of Versailles and to the commission charged with drafting the Weimar Constitution. He argued in favor of inserting Article 48 into the Weimar Constitution. This article was later used by Adolf Hitler to declare martial law and seize dictatorial powers.


http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0048.xml
Geertz set interpretive anthropology against the structuralist anthropology of Lévi-Strauss 1963, a volume that Geertz criticized heavily for having created “an infernal culture machine . .


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss was born to French Jewish parents who were living in Brussels at the time, where his father was working as a portrait painter.