Clifford Geertz, an anthropologist whose imaginative studies of cultural groups from other countries changed the intellectual underpinnings of anthropology and other social sciences, died Oct. 30 ...

He saw anthropology as more of an imaginative undertaking than a science. All an anthropologist could hope to do, he believed, was to understand the rituals, myths, language and art that govern a ...

Lumps of red ocher excavated near human graves in an Israeli cave indicate that symbolic thinking occurred at least 90,000 years ago, much earlier than archaeologists have traditionally assumed.

News Release 31-Mar-2004 East African artifacts support evolution of symbolic thinking in Middle Stone Age Peer-Reviewed Publication Arizona State University Full size image available here ...

Neanderthals thought like we do As early as 64,000 years ago Iberian Neanderthals created cave paintings Peer-Reviewed Publication Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...

I extend theory from symbolic anthropology to integrate the analysis of ideology into the study of resource mobilization without sacrificing the latter's emphasis on rational calculation.