I didn’t even know Clifford Geertz was still alive, so reading an article about him dying is a bit weird. It’s also weird to read about the death of someone I did a very short paper on during Honours (that would be Geertz). I knew nothing about anthropology and its intersections with historical writitng, so it was a good thing to research, even in a very cursory way… especially since it was for a subject called “Historians and Ritual.”