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Author Geertz, Clifford.

Title The interpretation of cultures : selected essays / Clifford Geertz
Published London : Fontana Press, 1993
1993

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Description ix, 470 pages ; 20 cm
Contents PART 1 -- 1. Thick description: Toward an interpetive theory of culture -- PART 2 -- 2. The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man -- 3. The growth of culture and the evolution of mind -- PART 3 -- 4. Religion as a cultural system -- 5. Ethos, world view, and the analysis of sacred symbols -- 6. Ritual and social change: A Javanese example -- 7. "Internal conversion" in contemporary Bali -- PART 4 -- 8. Ideology as a cultural system -- 9. After the revolution: The fate of nationalism in the new states -- 10. The integrative revolution: Primordial sentiments and civil politics in the new states -- 11. The politics of meaning -- 12. Politics past, politics present: Some notes on the uses of anthropology in understanding the new states -- PART 5 -- 13. The cerebral savage: On the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss -- 14. Person, time, and conduct in Bali -- 15. Deep play: Notes on the Balinese cockfight
Analysis Culture
Ethnology
Notes Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1973
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Culture.
Ethnology.
LC no. 00001001
ISBN 0006862608