Hildred Geertz – Wikipedia

Posted on by
before-content-x4

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 after-content-x4

American anthropologist (1927–2022)

Hildred Storey Geertz
Born

Hildred Storey

(1927-02-12)February 12, 1927

New York City, U.S.
Died September 30, 2022(2022-09-30) (aged 95)
Nationality American
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 has studied Balinese[1] and Javanese kinship[2] practices and Balinese art[3] in Indonesia.

after-content-x4

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. Since 1970, she has been teaching in the Anthropology department at Princeton University.[6] She was named professor emerita in 1998.[6] Geertz was also the first female department chair[7] at Princeton University. She received the honor for “People Who Have Made a Difference in the Lives of Women at Princeton” in 1998.[8] She was also nominated as an outstanding anthropology educator by Marquis Who’s Who in America.[5]

Major works[edit]

Geertz was born in New York City on February 12, 1927.[2] She completed her B.A. and met her future husband, Clifford Geertz in Antioch College, Ohio.[9] Geertz conducted her first fieldwork in Java with fellowship[6] for her graduate school studies from 1952 to 1954.[2] She received her Ph.D. in Radcliffe College in 1956 and published The Javanese Family in 1961.[10] The book examines the structures and functions of the Javanese kinship system. She provides detailed ethnographic data to show how the most central unit: the nuclear family, stabilizes and sustains Javanese society.[11]

Geertz conducted fieldwork in Bali for a year in 1957. She continued her research of the kinship system. And she was co-author with her husband Clifford Geertz, of Kinship in Bali (Chicago,1975).[12] This book refutes the popular view by the time: an emphasis on autonomous characteristics of kinship. It argues that the kinship system should be examined as a subsystem that inherits particular cultural patterns, ideas, and symbols of the society.[1][12]

Geertz later worked in Sefrou, Morocco, with Lawrence Rosen and Clifford Geertz to understand Moroccan family structure and the formation of their social ties.[13] She was co-author with them of Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society: Three Essays in Cultural Analysis.[13]

Geertz published Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead (1994) after conducting work on a painting series about the village of Batuan,[14] where Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson studied in the 1930s and collected these paintings originally for further studies.[15] She critically suggests that these paintings, painted by European artists who reside in Bali, reflect an “ethnography of Balinese imagination (p.1)” and are not insightful to show the Balinese characteristics.[15]  

Personal life and death[edit]

Geertz married Clifford Geertz in 1948; they divorced in 1981. They had one son and one daughter.[16]

Geertz died in Princeton, New Jersey on September 30, 2022, at the age of 95.[17]

Publications[edit]

  • Geertz, Hildred (1968). “Latah in Java: A theoretical paradox.” Indonesia Indonesia (Ithaca) No. 5. ISBN 0877278636
  • Geertz Hildred; Geertz, Clifford (1978). Kinship in Bali. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226285162.
  • Geertz, Hildred (1989). Javanese Family: A Study of Kinship and Socialization. Illinois: Waveland Press. ISBN 9780881334609.
  • Geertz, Hildred (1989). The Javanese family: a study of kinship and socialization American Council of Learned Societies. Illinois: Waveland Press. ISBN 088133460X
  • Geertz, Hildred (1991). State and Society in Bali: Historical Textual and Anthropological Approaches. Leiden: KITLV Press. ISBN 9067180319
  • Geertz, Hildred (1994). Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press ISBN 082481679X
  • Geertz, Hildred Geertz; Togog, Ida Bagus Made(2005). Tales From a Charmed Life: A Balinese Painter Reminisces. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824828226
  • Geertz, Hildred (2014). Life of a Balinese Temple Artistry, Imagination, and History in a Peasant Village. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824825331
  • Geertz, Hildred (2017). Storytelling in Bali. Leiden: Boston Brill ISBN 9789004311596.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Yarrow, Andrew L. (2006-11-01). “Clifford Geertz, Cultural Anthropologist, Is Dead at 80”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  2. ^ a b c d Shavit, David (1990). The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 186. ISBN 978-0-313-26788-8.
  3. ^ “Hildred Geertz | Anthropology@Princeton”. anthropology.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  4. ^ “Associates in Current Anthropology”. Current Anthropology. 10 (2/3): 258–261. 1969-04-01. doi:10.1086/201083. ISSN 0011-3204.
  5. ^ a b Geertz, Hildred Storey (2016). “Marquis Who’s Who in America”. Marquis Who’s Who. 70th ed.
  6. ^ a b c “Princeton – PWB 052598 – Fourteen faculty members transferred to emeritus status”. pr.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  7. ^ “Princeton Alumni Weekly”. Princeton Alumni Weekly. May 22, 1973: 14. 1972.
  8. ^ “Princeton – PWB 062298 – Contents page”. pr.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  9. ^ “Obituaries: Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) – ProQuest”. www.proquest.com. ProQuest 198132690. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  10. ^ Geertz, Hildred (1989). The Javanese family: a study of kinship and socialization. Waveland Press. ISBN 9780881334609.
  11. ^ Geertz, Hildred (1961). The Javanese family: a study of kinship and socialization. Free Press of Glencoe.
  12. ^ a b Kinship in Bali. University of Chicago Press.
  13. ^ a b Crapanzano, Vincent (1981). “Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society: Three Essays in Cultural Analysis. Clifford Geertz , Hildred Geertz , Lawrence Rosen”. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 29 (4): 849–860. doi:10.1086/451297. ISSN 0013-0079.
  14. ^ “The Javanese Family: A Study of Kinship and Socialization”. www.cscd.osaka-u.ac.jp. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  15. ^ a b “Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead – ProQuest”. www.proquest.com. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  16. ^ “Clifford Geertz”. The Independent. 2006-11-03. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  17. ^ “Hildred Anderson Storey Geertz, 95”. CentralJersey.com. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.


after-content-x4