



Swidler, Ann, “Interpretive Versus Explanatory Approaches to the Sociology of Culture,” paper delivered before the American Sociological Association Meeting, Boston, 08 1979 Google Scholar, and Tuchman, Gaye, “ Women's Depiction by the Mass Media,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 4 ( 1979), 540 CrossRef Google Scholar, are just two examples of the many uses to which Geertz has been put in humanities and socialscience writing.ģ4. Walters has many more examples of historical works that make use of Geertz. For a thorough and excellent discussion of Geertz's use of, and influence on, historians, see Walters, Ronald, “ Signs of the Times: Clifford Geertz and Historians,” Social Research, 47 ( 1980), 537–56 Google Scholar. H., “ Horses and Gentlemen: The Cultural Significance of Gambling Among the Gentry of Virginia,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 34 ( 1977), 239–57 CrossRef Google Scholar. See also Beeman, Richard, “ The New Social History and the Search for ‘Community’ in Colonial America,” American Quarterly, 29 ( 1977), 428–43 CrossRef Google Scholar Stannard, David, “ Death and Dying in Puritan New England,” American Historical Review, 78 ( 1973), 1306 CrossRef Google Scholar PubMed and Breen, T. In his introduction, Higham calls Geertz “virtually the patron saint” of that collection. See, for example, Higham, John and Conkin, Paul, eds., New Directions in American Intellectual History ( Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ.
