1957 Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example. American Anthropologist 59(1):32-54.

1959 Form and Variation in Balinese Village Structure. American Anthropologist 61:991-
1012.

1959 The Javanese Village. In Local, Ethnic, and National Loyalties in Village Indonesia. Ed.
G. William Skinner. pp. 3441. New Haven: Southeast Asian Program, Yale University.

1960 Religion of Java. Glencoe: Free Press.

1961 The Rotating Credit Association: A "Middle Rung" in Development. Economic

Development and Cultural Change 10:241-263.

1962 Studies in Peasant Life: Community and Society. In Biennial Review of Anthropology
1961. Ed. Bernard J. Siegal. pp. 141. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

1962 The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind. In Theories of the Mind. Ed. J. Scher.
pp. 713740. New York: Free Press.

1963 Agricultural Involution: The Process of Agricultural Change in Indonesia. Berkeley:

University of California Press.

1963 Peddlers and Princes: Social Change and Economic Modernization in Two Indonesian
Towns. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1963 (editor) Old Societies and New States. New York: Free Press.

1963 The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States.
In Old Societies and New States. Ed. Clifford Geertz. pp. 105157. Glencoe: Free Press.

1964 Ideology as a Cultural System. In Ideology and Discontent. Ed. David Apter. pp. 4776.
New York: Free Press.

1965 The Social History of an Indonesian Town. Cambridge: MIT Press.

1965 Modernization in a Muslim Society: The Indonesian Case, 201-211, in Robert O. Tilman
(ed), Man, State, and Society in Contemporary South East Asia. London: Pall Mall.

1966 Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali: An Essay in Cultural Analysis. Southeast Asia
Program, Cultural Report Series. New Haven: Yale University.

1966 Religion as a Cultural System. In Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion.

Ed. Michael Banton. pp. 146. ASA Monographs, 3. London: Tavistock Publications.

1966 The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man. In New Views of the
Nature of Man. Ed. J. Platt. pp. 93118. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 1967 Politics Past, Politics Preset: Some Notes on the Contribution of Anthropology to the
Study of the New States. European Journal of Sociology 8(1):1-14.

1967 The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Lvi-Strauss. Encounter 48(4):25-32.

1967 Tihingan: A Balinese Village. In Villages in Indonesia. Ed. R. N. Koentjaraningrat.

pp. 210243. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.

1967 Under the Mosquito Net. New York Review of Books, September 14.

1968 Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press. 136 pp.

1968 Thinking as a Moral Act: Dimensions of Anthropological Fieldwork in the New States.
Antioch Review 28(2):139-158.

1972 Religious Change and Social Order in Soeharto's Indonesia. Asia 27:62-84.

1972 The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco. Human Ecology 1:34-
39.

1972 Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. Daedalus 101(1 Winter).

1973 The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic.

1973 Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture. In The Interpretation of

Cultures: Selected Essays. Clifford Geertz. pp 330. New York: Basic Books.

1976 From the Native's Point of View. In Meaning in Anthropology. Eds. Keith H. Basso and
Henry A. Selby. pp. 221237. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

1977 Found in Translation: On the Social History of the Moral Imagination. Georgia Review
31(4 Winter):788-810.

1977 Curing, Sorcery, and Magic in a Javanese Town. In Culture, Disease, and Healing:
Studies in Medical Anthropology. Ed. David Landy. pp. 146153. New York: Macmillan
Publishing.

1979 [with Hildred Geertz and Lawrence Rosen] Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society:
Three Essays in Cultural Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. See his own
contribution on "Suq: The Bazaar Economy in Sefrou" (pp. 123225).

1980 Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali. Princeton: Princeton University
Press.

1983 Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York: Basic Books.
 1983 Centers, Kings, and Charisma: Reflections on the Symbolics of Power. In Local
Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. Clifford Geertz. pp. 121146. New
York: Basic Books.

1983 "From the Native's Point of View": On the Nature of Anthropological Knowledge. In
Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. Clifford Geertz. pp. 5570. New
York: Basic Books.

1983 Notions of Primitive Thought: Dialogue with Clifford Geertz. In States of Mind. ed &
comp Jonathan Miller. pp. 192210. New York: Pantheon.

1984 Anti-Anti-Relativism. 1983 Distinguished Lecture. American Anthropologist 82:263-278.

1984 Culture and Social Change: The Indonesian Case. Man 19:511-532.

1986 The Uses of Diversity. In Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Vol. 7. Ed. Sterling M.
McMurrin. pp. 251275. Cambridge and Salt Lake City: Cambridge University Press and
University of Utah Press.

1988 Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
The four studies included in the book are:

"The World in a Text: How to Read Tristes Tropiques" (pp. 2548).

"Slide Show: Evans-Pritchard's African Transparencies" (pp. 4972).

"I-Witnessing: Malinowski's Children" (pp. 73101).

"Us/not-Us: Benedict's Travels" (pp. 102128).

1989 Margaret Mead, 1901-1978. Biographical Memoirs 58:329-341. National Academy of

Sciences.

1990 History and Anthropology. New Literary History 21(2 Winter):321-335.

1991 The Year of Living Culturally. New Republic, October 21, 30-36.

1992 "Local Knowledge" and Its Limits: Some Obiter Dicta. Yale Journal of Criticism
5(2):129-135.

1993 "Ethnic Conflict": Three Alternative Terms. Common Knowledge 2(3 Winter):54-65.

1994 Life on the Edge. [Review of Tsing, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen]. New York
Review of Books 41(7 April ):3-4.

1995 After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist. [The Jerusalem-
Harvard Lectures]. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press.
 1995 Culture War. [Review essay on Sahlins, How "Natives" Think and Obeyesekere, The
Apotheosis of Captain Cook]. New York Review of Books 42(19 November 30):4-6.

2000 Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. Princeton:

Princeton University Press.

2010 Life Among the Anthros and Other Essays edited by Fred Inglis (Princeton University
Press; 272 pages)