Geertz Rules!

When people ask me why I choose him, I just answer: "Because he is a genius".
Clifford Geertz was born in 1926 and died in 2006 in USA. He was considered "the most influential anthropologist in the USA". Although I was not anthropologist, I had a PhD in Harvard of Anthropology and was the best! And also, he has a honor mention; Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies (1987). His occupation was being a teacher in Institute for Advanced Study until his dead. He writed a lot of papers and books about his fieldworks when he has travel with his wife, trained as an anthropologist.
Anyway, there are many of information about his personal life but I think that is not important in this context, because I want to highlight his academic life, especially about his work called "Deep play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight". Here he explained in a different way the human actions. It's very interesting because he used literary tools like narrative to finally raise a reflection of the village hierarchies through the "cockfight", this lets us see that we can make anthropology studies in anywhere!

But every work of him has some special that can you inspired! 

By: Paul Hyman.