Some anthropologists, such as Lloyd Fallers and Clifford Geertz, focused on processes of modernization by which newly independent states could develop.

Authors such as David Schneider, Clifford Geertz, and Marshall Sahlins developed a more fleshed-out concept of culture as a web of meaning or signification, which proved very popular within and beyond the discipline.

* 1926 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist ( d. 2006 )

The anthropologist Clifford Geertz defined religion as a " system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

* August 23 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist

Scholars inspired by Durkheim include Marcel Mauss, Maurice Halbwachs, Célestin Bouglé, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton, Jean Piaget, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Ferdinand de Saussure, Michel Foucault, Clifford Geertz, Peter Berger, Robert Bellah and others.

* Clifford Geertz: Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought

The anthropologist Clifford Geertz wrote the influential essay Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, on the meaning of the cockfight in Balinese culture.

In a distinguished lecture before the American Anthropological Association in 1984, Clifford Geertz pointed out that the conservative critics of cultural relativism did not really understand, and were not really responding to, the ideas of Benedict, Herskovits, Kroeber and Kluckhohn.

* Nissim-Sabat, Charles 1987 " On Clifford Geertz and His ' Anti Anti-Relativism '" in American Anthropologist 89 ( 4 ): 935-939

** " Geertz's primordialism ", notably espoused by anthropologist Clifford Geertz, argues that humans in general attribute an overwhelming power to primordial human " givens " such as blood ties, language, territory, and cultural differences.

As ethnography developed, anthropologists grew more interested in less tangible aspects of culture, such as values, worldview and what Clifford Geertz termed the " ethos " of the culture.

Famous examples include " Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight " by Clifford Geertz, Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco by Paul Rabinow, The Headman and I by Jean-Paul Dumont, and Tuhami by Vincent Crapanzano.

* Geertz, Clifford.

Other famous scholars who have worked at the institute include Alan Turing, Paul Dirac, Edward Witten, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Freeman Dyson, Julian Bigelow, Erwin Panofsky, Homer A. Thompson, George Kennan, Hermann Weyl, Stephen Smale, Atle Selberg, Noam Chomsky, Clifford Geertz, Paul Erdős, Michael Atiyah, Erich Auerbach, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Michael Walzer, Andrew Wiles, Stephen Wolfram, and Eric Maskin.

The Institute has been the workplace of some of the most renowned thinkers in the world, including Albert Einstein, Paul Dirac, Kurt Gödel, Clifford Geertz, T. D. Lee and C. N. Yang, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John von Neumann, Freeman J. Dyson, Hassler Whitney, André Weil, Hermann Weyl, Harish-Chandra, Joan W. Scott, Frank Wilczek, Edward Witten, Albert O. Hirschman, Nima Arkani-Hamed, George F. Kennan, and Yve-Alain Bois.

Clifford Geertz was also a contributor to this field.

* Clifford Geertz, The Religion of Java ( 1960 )

* Clifford Geertz

The American anthropologist Clifford Geertz in the 1960s divided the Javanese community into three aliran or " streams ": santri, abangan and priyayi.

There were “ foundational works underlying and facilitating the turn to cultural forms of analysis ;” they were: Hayden White ’ s Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe ( 1973 ), Clifford Geertz ’ s The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays ( 1973 ), Michel Foucault ’ s Discipline and Punish ( 1977 ), and Pierre Bourdieu ’ s Outline of a Theory of Practice ( 1977 ).

Clifford James Geertz ( August 23, 1926, San Francisco – October 30, 2006, Philadelphia ) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered " for three decades ... the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States.

Clifford James Geertz was born in San Francisco, California on August 23, 1926.

Clifford Geertz died of complications following heart surgery on October 30, 2006.

Clifford Geertz.

* 1944: Clifford K. Berryman, Evening Star ( Washington D. C .), " for ' Where Is the Boat Going?

* 1944: Clifford K. Berryman, for Editorial Cartooning, " Where Is the Boat Going?

* Steinberger, Mike, ' Is Clifford Chance / Rogers & Wells the Next Wave, or Simply Overkill?

His other works include Dinny and the Witches ( 1948, revised 1961 ), in which a jazz musician incurs the wrath of three Shakespearean witches by blowing a riff which stops time ; the book for the musical version of Clifford Odets ' Golden Boy ( 1964 ), which earned him yet another Tony nomination ; A Mass for the Dead ( 1968 ), an autobiographical family chronicle ; A Cry of Players ( 1968 ), a speculative account of the life of young William Shakespeare ( with Anne Bancroft starring for Gibson once again, this time as Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway ); Goodly Creatures ( 1980 ), about Puritan dissident Anne Hutchinson ; and Monday After the Miracle ( 1982 ), a continuation of the Helen Keller story.

* Theatre Director Clifford Williams Dead

The ABC was built by Dr. Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry in the basement of the physics building at Iowa State College during 1939 – 42.

The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

However, the Cabal Ministry they formed can hardly be seen as such ; the Scot Lauderdale was not much involved in English governance at all, while the Catholic ministers of the Cabal ( Clifford and Arlington ) were never much in sympathy with the Protestants ( Buckingham and Ashley ).

He had a small, basic golf facility installed at Camp David, and became close friends with the Augusta National Chairman Clifford Roberts, inviting Roberts to stay at the White House on several occasions ; Roberts, an investment broker, also handled the Eisenhower family's investments.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

As Mitchell was about to graduate from the Washington Seminary in 1918, she met and fell in love with another Harvard student, a young army lieutenant, Clifford West Henry, who was chief bayonet instructor at Camp Gordon from May 10 until the time he set sail for France on July 17.

In 1997, it was publicly disclosed that asymmetric key algorithms were developed by James H. Ellis, Clifford Cocks, and Malcolm Williamson at the Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ ) in the UK in 1973.

Clifford Cocks, an English mathematician working for the UK intelligence agency GCHQ, described an equivalent system in an internal document in 1973, but given the relatively expensive computers needed to implement it at the time, it was mostly considered a curiosity and, as far as is publicly known, was never deployed.

He was apparently of above average height: according to Clifford Brewer he was but his remains have been lost since at least the French Revolution, and his exact height is unknown.

In 1998 a team of students at Union College in Schenectady, New York, with their political science professor Clifford Brown, undertook a project to document Northup's historic narrative.

* The Atanasoff-Berry computer is considered the first electronic digital computing device built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University during 1937 – 1942.

Harthacnut presumably consumed large quanties of alcohol, as he was drinking to the health of the bride — he " died as he stood at his drink, and he suddenly fell to the earth with an awful convulsion ; and those who were close by took hold of him, and he spoke no word afterwards …" The likely cause of death was a stroke, " brought about by an excessive intake of alcohol " In The Death of Kings: A Medical History of the Kings and Queens of England ( 2000 ), Clifford Brewer suggested a cardiac arrest as the immediate cause of death.

Although The Flowering Peach by Clifford Odets was the preferred choice of the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1955 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was at first considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., chairman of the Board, had seen Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and thought it worthy of the drama prize.

On the night of 10 June, at Bramham Moor, outside Tadcaster, Lovell led 2, 000 men on a night attack against 400 Lancastrians, led by Lord Clifford.

Northumberland, Clifford and Somerset were the sons of York's and Salisbury's rivals who had been killed at St. Albans.

Rutland attempted to escape over Wakefield Bridge, but was overtaken and killed, possibly by Clifford in revenge for his father's death at St Albans.

Harry Clifford Fassett, captain's clerk and photographer, recorded people, communities and scenes at Funafuti during a visit of USFC Albatross when the U. S. Fish Commission were investigating the formation of coral reefs on Pacific atolls in 1900.

Notable later 20th century productions include the Hilton Edwards ' 1959 production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, starring Milo O ' Shea and Anna Manahan ; John Barton's 1960 Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Peter O ' Toole and Peggy Ashcroft, and which included both the complete Induction and the epilogue from A Shrew ; Maurice Daniels's 1961 RSC production at the Aldwych Theatre, starring Derek Godfrey and Vanessa Redgrave ; Trevor Nunn's 1969 RSC production also at the Aldwych, starring Michael Williams and Janet Suzman ; Clifford Williams ' 1973 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Alan Bates and Susan Fleetwood ; William Ball's 1976 commedia dell ' arte-style production at the American Conservatory Theater ; Wilford Leach's 1978 production at the Delacorte Theater, starring Raúl Juliá and Meryl Streep ; Barry Kyle's 1982 RSC production at the Barbican Centre, starring Alun Armstrong and Sinéad Cusack ; Toby Robertson's 1986 production at the Clwyd Theatr Cymru, starring Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave ; Jonathan Miller's 1987 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Brian Cox and Fiona Shaw ; A. J.