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Author Geertz, Clifford, author

Title Life among the anthros and other essays / Clifford Geertz ; edited by Fred Inglis
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Series Anthropology online
Contents Introduction : the comic vision of Clifford Geertz -- On Malinowski -- On Gandhi -- On Foucault -- On Genet -- Ethnography in China -- In search of North Africa -- Mysteries of Islam -- The last Arab Jews -- House painting : Toutes directions -- On feminism -- Indonesia : starting over -- On the devastation of the Amazon -- Which way to Mecca? pt. 1 -- Which way to Mecca? pt. 2 -- On the state of the world -- The Near East in the Far East -- An inconstant profession -- What is a state if it is not sovereign? -- Shifting aims, moving targets -- What was the Third World revolution?
Summary Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was perhaps the most influential anthropologist of our time, but his influence extended far beyond his field to encompass all facets of contemporary life. Nowhere were his gifts for directness, humor, and steady revelation more evident than in the pages of the New York Review of Books, where for nearly four decades he shared his acute vision of the world in all its peculiarity. This book brings together the finest of Geertz's review essays from the New York Review along with a representative selection of later pieces written at the height of his powers, some that fi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Anthropology -- Philosophy
Anthropology -- Research.
Anthropology -- Fieldwork
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Anthropology -- Fieldwork
Anthropology -- Philosophy
Anthropology -- Research
Form Electronic book
Author Inglis, Fred, editor
ISBN 9781400834549
1400834546
1282645005
9781282645004