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My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things
Clifford Geertz
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Clifford Geertz
Age: 80 †
Born: 1926
Born: August 23
Died: 2006
Died: October 30
Anthropologist
Sociologist
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San Francisco County
California
Clifford J. Geertz
Clifford James Geertz
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