 | Chaim Waxman - History - 2010 - 300 pages
...characterizes Jewish ethnicity, is particularly relevant in terms of the way Clifford Geertz defines culture: "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge and attitudes toward life" (Geertz, 1976, p. 89). Religion, in turn, is a cultural system, a complex... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 430 pages
...communication. A less intricate but suitable Interpretation of Cultures. Culture was defined within the text as "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men [and women] communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life."... | |
 | Georg G. Iggers - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 284 pages
...significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs." Culture presents itself, he continued, as "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic form by which men communicate, perpetrate and develop their knowledge about attitudes toward life."... | |
 | Richard A. Shweder - Social Science - 1984 - 376 pages
...and I suspect most of the conferees would feel comfortable with Geertz's own definition of culture as "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic form by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes... | |
 | Wendy Griswold - History - 1986 - 328 pages
...forgotten works. 13. The quotation is from Clifford Geertz definition of culture, the whole of which is "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conception expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their... | |
 | Randall L. Pouwels, Randall Lee Pouwels - History - 2002 - 292 pages
...collective experiences of the world in which they live both in time and space. Thus, a culture evolves as a historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...communicate, perpetuate and develop their knowledge about the attitudes towards life.40 As man experiences the world in which he lives, many symbols of his existence... | |
 | Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim, Francis M. Deng - Political Science - 2010 - 422 pages
...study of culture presents it in terms of symbols and meanings.4 Geertz, for example, defines culture as "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men [and women] communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life."5... | |
 | Michael Byram, J. Leman - Education - 1990 - 176 pages
...that theory should not ignore the cultural dimension. In Geertz's definition (1975: 89) culture is 'an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in a symbolic form by means of which men communicate, perpetuate and develop their knowledge about attitudes... | |
 | R. A. Markus, Robert Austin Markus - History - 1990 - 282 pages
...religion will be one among a number of constituents which, taken together, constitute a 'culture': 'an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop the-.r knowledge about and attitude towards life.'21... | |
 | Dieter Buttjes, Michael Byram - Education - 1991 - 352 pages
...have even gone further than this: 'Language is all', they seem to be saying. lf to Geertz culture is 'an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic form by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitude... | |
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denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men [sic] communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life 
