Hildred Storey Geertz was an American anthropologist who studied Balinese and Javanese kinship practices and Balinese art in Indonesia.
14 Facts About Hildred Geertz
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Hildred Geertz began teaching in the Anthropology department at Princeton University in 1970, and was named professor emerita in 1998.
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Hildred Geertz was the first female department chair at Princeton University.
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Hildred Geertz was honored as one of the "People Who Have Made a Difference in the Lives of Women at Princeton" in 1998.
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Hildred Geertz was nominated as an outstanding anthropology educator by Marquis Who's Who in America.
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Hildred Geertz was born in New York City on February 12,1927.
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Hildred Geertz conducted her first fieldwork in Java with fellowship for her graduate school studies from 1952 to 1954.
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Hildred Geertz provides detailed ethnographic data to show how the most central unit: the nuclear family, stabilizes and sustains Javanese society.
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Hildred Geertz conducted fieldwork in Bali for a year in 1957 where she continued her research of kinship systems.
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Hildred Geertz later worked in Sefrou, Morocco, with Lawrence Rosen and Clifford Hildred Geertz to understand Moroccan family structure and the formation of their social ties.
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Hildred Geertz was co-author with them of Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society: Three Essays in Cultural Analysis.
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Hildred Geertz published Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead after conducting work on a painting series about the village of Batuan, where Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson studied in the 1930s and collected these paintings originally for further studies.
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Hildred Geertz married Clifford Hildred Geertz in 1948; they divorced in 1981.
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Hildred Geertz died in Princeton, New Jersey on September 30,2022, at the age of 95.