States of Mind — Season 1, Episode 11: Clifford Geertz
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 15 episodes
Episode synopsis
In Victorian times armchair anthropologists regarded tribal man as a fossilised remnant of our primitive ancestors. Clifford Geertz, Professor of Social Science at Princeton, who has done extensive field work in Indonesia and Morocco, explains why he thinks that the magical rites of pre-literate people express a different, but by no means primitive, attitude to the world around them.
About States of Mind
Series of programmes about psychology, in which Jonathan Miller talks to eminent psychologists about their theories and beliefs.