Title After the fact : two countries, four decades, one anthropologist / Clifford Geertz

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (198 pages) Series The Jerusalem-Harvard lectures Jerusalem-Harvard lectures. Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Towns -- 2 Countries -- 3 Culture -- 4 Hegemonies -- 5 Disciplines -- 6 Modernities -- Notes -- Index Summary "Suppose," Clifford Geertz suggests, "having entangled yourself every now and again over four decades or so in the goings-on in two provincial towns, one a Southeast Asian bend in the road, one a North African outpost and passage point, you wished to say something about how those goings-on had changed." A narrative presents itself, a tour of indices and trends, perhaps a memoir? None, however, will suffice, because in forty years more has changed than those two towns - the anthropologist, for instance, anthropology itself, even the intellectual and moral world in which the discipline exists To view his two towns in time, Pare in Indonesia and Sefrou in Morocco, Geertz adopts various perspectives on anthropological research and analysis during the post-colonial period, the Cold War, and the emergence of the new states of Asia and Africa. Throughout, he clarifies his own position on a broad series of issues at once empirical, methodological, theoretical, and personal. The result is a truly original book, one that displays a particular way of practicing the human sciences and thus a particular - and particularly efficacious - view of what these sciences are, have been, and should become Analysis Anthropology Asia Africa Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Geertz, Clifford. SUBJECT Geertz, Clifford fast Subject Anthropologists -- United States -- Biography Anthropologists -- Asia -- Biography Anthropology -- Philosophy BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General Anthropologists Anthropology -- Philosophy Social conditions Culturele antropologie. SUBJECT Asia -- Social conditions Africa -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001574 Subject Africa Asia United States Genre/Form Biographies Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674037526 0674037529

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