| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 271 pages) |
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Anthropology online |
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Anthropology online
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. Passage and Accident: A Life of Learning; II. Thinking as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of Anthropological Fieldwork in the New States; III. Anti Anti-Relativism; IV. The Uses of Diversity; V. The State of the Art; VI. The Strange Estrangement: Charles Taylor and the Natural Sciences; VII. The Legacy of Thomas Kuhn: The Right Text at the Right Time; VIII. The Pinch of Destiny: Religion as Experience, Meaning, Identity, Power; IX. Imbalancing Act: Jerome Bruner's Cultural Psychology; X. Culture, Mind, Brain / Brain, Mind, Culture |
| Summary |
Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this collection of personal and revealing essays, he explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public, serving as the foremost spokesperson of his generation of scholars, those who came of age after World War II. His reflections are written in a style that both entertains and disconcerts, as they engage us in topics ranging from moral relativism to the relationship between cultural and psychological differences, from the |
| Notes |
Articles previously published chiefly 1983-1999 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Ethnology.
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Philosophy.
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Cultural pluralism.
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Philosophy
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Cultural Diversity
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philosophy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Cultural pluralism.
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Ethnology.
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Philosophy.
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Culturele antropologie.
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Filosofie.
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Philosophie -- Ethnologie.
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Ethnologie -- Philosophie.
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Ethnologie -- Philosophie.
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Anthropologie -- Philosophie.
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Ethnologie.
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Philosophie.
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Pluralisme (sciences sociales)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
140081412X |
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9781400814121 |
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9781400823406 |
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1400823404 |
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0691089566 |
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9780691089560 |
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