Hildred geertz biography books
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Tales From a Charmed Life: A Balinese Painter Reminisces
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Hildred Storey Geertz
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1927–2022
Hildred Storey Geertz, professor emeritus at Princeton University, died peacefully at home in Princeton, New Jersey, on September 30, 2022.
I am one of those graduate students for whom Hilly Geertz was an absolutely essential presence in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. I had a background in Spanish literature, I loved the arts, and I wanted to be a writer. I often wandered through Aaron Burr Hall questioning my decision to pursue a career in anthropology. Did it make any sense? It was Hilly who sought to show me that anthropology is a capacious discipline. Through her passion for Balinese painting and storytelling, she convinced me there was room in anthropology for those of us wanting to build bridges to the arts and to write poetically nuanced ethnographies.
Hilly earned her BA at Antioch College in 1948 and her PhD in social anthropology from Radcliffe College in 1956. Her pioneering e
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Hildred Geertz
American anthropologist (1927–2022)
Hildred Storey Geertz | |
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| Born | Hildred Storey (1927-02-12)February 12, 1927 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | September 30, 2022(2022-09-30) (aged 95) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Antioch College (B.A.) Radcliffe College (Ph.D.) |
| Spouse | Clifford Geertz (m. 1948; div. 1981) |
Hildred Storey Geertz (February 12, 1927 – September 30, 2022) was an American anthropologist who studied Balinese[1] and Javanese kinship[2] practices and Balinese art[3] in Indonesia.
Between 1960 and 1970, Geertz served as a research scholar,[4] a lecturer,[5] and an assistant professor[2] of social anthropology at the University of Chicago. She began teaching in the antropologi department at Princeton University in 1970, and was named professor emerita in 1998.[6] Geertz was also the first female department chair[7] at Princeton Un