An Anthropologist of Influence

Clifford Geertz relishes experimentation and refuses to be pigeonholed

By Karen J. Winkler

Princeton, New Jersey -- Clifford Geertz doesn't want anyone to think that his latest book, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist (Harvard University Press), is an autobiography.

"The only thing autobiographical about it is that I'm in it," he says with evident...

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