5 Comments on “Clifford Geertz”

1. Orang kampung Says:
   November 2nd, 2006 at 10:37 pm

   May he rest in heaven. I happen to have read his works, he is a man with an incredible talent to understand culture and subject matter in a profound way! I hope many his new generation will born and prosper! We need more people like him to understand this diverse world. We have now are tons of bullies who speak out of anger and have lack of interest in details of research or studies.

   Good Bye Geertz

2. Andrew Says:
   November 3rd, 2006 at 5:50 am

   Talking about Javanese culture – my aunt happens to be married to an Australian who is a Javanese Literature (or whatever they call it) professor. When he visits Indonesia, he speaks with my older maid in Krama Inggil. My young maids don’t even understand it.

   Ironic isn’t it – there are far more foreigners than locals who study and become expert in various cultures of Indonesia.

3. Hassan Says:
   November 7th, 2006 at 9:05 pm

   yes, that’s too bad, andrew. other people respects our culture more than ourselves. while Indonesians seemed too busy studying and applying western cultures to our everyday life.

4. Andrew Says:
   November 11th, 2006 at 3:47 am

   Which is fine, as long as they don’t forget their own…

5. Tomaculum Says:
   November 11th, 2006 at 6:57 pm

   Hassan,
   I think you’re just partially right. The Indonesian people are also busy studying and applying Arabic cultures (they then declare as Islamic culture), aren’t they? There are even a tendency to abandone our identity and to place the foreign culture on a higher level than the local cultures, independent which one the people study and apply.

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