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Geertz, Clifford James - gĭrts, 1926–, American cultural anthropologist, b. San Francisco. He was a professor of anthropology at the Univ. of Chicago from 1960 to 1970, when he became a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He also served as Eastman Professor at Oxford Univ. (1978–79). Famous for advocating a Weberian approach to culture

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The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays » Read Now
by Clifford Geertz. 470 pgs.

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...The Interpretation of Cultures THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES SELECTED ESSAYS BY Clifford Geertz A Member of the Perseus Books Group 1973 BasicBooks, A Member of the...
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Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology » Read Now
by Clifford Geertz. 244 pgs.

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The noted cultural anthropologist and author of 'The Interpretation of Cultures' deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of 'local knowledge.'
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Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics » Read Now
by Clifford Geertz. 268 pgs.

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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...
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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 diversity and tension among activist faiths to "ethnic conflict" in today's politics.
Geertz, who once considered a career in philosophy, begins by explaining how he got swept into the revolutionary movement of symbolic anthropology. At that point, his work began to encompass not only the ethnography of groups in Southeast Asia and North Africa, but also the study of how meaning is made in all cultures--or, to use his phrase, to explore the "frames of meaning" in which people everywhere live out their lives. His philosophical orientation helped
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Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, in Daedalus » Read Now
by Clifford Geertz. 31 pgs.

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The Problem of Context (Chap. 5 "As They Like It: Overinterpretation and Hyporeality in Bali") » Read Now
by Roy Dilley. 242 pgs.

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This book arises from the sixth conference or workshop in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. It collects together those papers of immediate anthropological interest, with the aim of presenting a focused set of chapters.
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Shifting Aims, Moving Targets: On the Anthropology of Religion, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute » Read Now
by Clifford Geertz. 15 pgs.

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Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories ("Geertz: Religion as a Cultural System" begins on p. 93) » Read Now
by Benson Saler. 310 pgs.

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Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning ("Clifford Geertz: Bringing Culture to Mind" begins on p. 32) » Read Now
by Bradd Shore. 432 pgs.

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Culture in Mind is an ethnographic portrait of the human mind. Using case studies from both western and nonwestern societies. Shore argues that "cultural models" are necessary to the functioning of the human mind. Drawing on recent developments in cognitive science as well as anthropology, Culture...
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Culture in Mind is an ethnographic portrait of the human mind. Using case studies from both western and nonwestern societies. Shore argues that "cultural models" are necessary to the functioning of the human mind. Drawing on recent developments in cognitive science as well as anthropology, Culture in Mind explores the cognitive world of culture in the ongoing production of meaning in everyday thinking and feeling.
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Culture and Critique: An Introduction to the Critical Discourses of Cultural Studies ("'Applied' Hermeneutics and Contemporary Social Science: Geertz's Approach to Anthropology" begins on p. 63) » Read Now
by Jere Paul Surber. 294 pgs.

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"From culture to critique, Kant to Gadamer, Marx to Bourdieu, this detailed & brilliantly argued account of the history, theory, & practice of cultural studies is the best introduction to the subject that we have." Eric Gould University of Denver "An excellent pathway through a diverse field.... The...
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"From culture to critique, Kant to Gadamer, Marx to Bourdieu, this detailed & brilliantly argued account of the history, theory, & practice of cultural studies is the best introduction to the subject that we have." Eric Gould University of Denver "An excellent pathway through a diverse field.... The special appeal of this book is to clarify the role of the critic, who is both immanent & transcendent, participant & objective observer alike.... It places current trends from Deconstruction Semiotics into Postmodernism & Poststructuralism in their historical & theoretical background, ranging from Hermeneutics to Marxism. In a truly Renaissance manner, Dr. Surber has incorporated the diverse trends in a loose, yet clear structure." Achim D. Koddermann SUNY at Oneonta
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Not What We Read but How: Where T. S. Eliot Meets Clifford Geertz, in Mosaic (Winnipeg) » Read Now
by Inger Sigrun Brodey. 16 pgs.

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Inculturation and Cultural Systems, in Theological Studies » Read Now
by Carl F. Starkloff. 16 pgs.

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The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture (Chap. 5 "The Semiotics of Culture and the Diagnostics of Criticism: Clifford Geertz and the Moral Imagination") » Read Now
by Giles Gunn. 240 pgs.

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Giles Gunn's challenging new work is at once a passionately argued defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgment that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in the light of challenges posed by...
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Giles Gunn's challenging new work is at once a passionately argued defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgment that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in the light of challenges posed by structuralist and post-structuralist theory. Gunn's perceptive analysis, which includes lengthy discussions of such thinkers as Kenneth Burke, Clifford Geertz, Mikhail Bakhtin, Richard Rorty, Trilling, and Wilson, challenges the assumptions of modern criticism with a revised interpretation of pragmatism and its critical legacy. Part critical analysis, part philosophical argument, part literary and cultural history, this work is a carefully delineated vision of what criticism actively engaged in its society can accomplish.
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Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice ("Geertz and the Window of Ritual" begins on p. 25) » Read Now
by Catherine Bell. 288 pgs.

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In recent years the notion of ritual has emerged as an important focus for new forms of cultural analysis. Arguing that the concept of ritual is overdue for critical rethinking, Bell here offers a close theoretical analysis of the recent developments in ritual studies, concentrating on anthropology...
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In recent years the notion of ritual has emerged as an important focus for new forms of cultural analysis. Arguing that the concept of ritual is overdue for critical rethinking, Bell here offers a close theoretical analysis of the recent developments in ritual studies, concentrating on anthropology, sociology, and history of religions. She begins by showing how discourse on ritual has served to generate and legitimate a limited and ultimately closed form of cultural analysis. She then proposes that so-called ritual activities be removed from their isolated position as special, paradigmatic acts and restored to the context of "social activity" in general. Using the term "ritualization" to describe ritual thus contextualized, she defines it as a culturally strategic way of acting. She goes on to show how this definition can serve to illuminate such classic issues in traditional ritual studies as belief, ideology, legitimation, and power.
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Mirrored Images: American Anthropology and American Culture, 1960-1980 (Discussion of Clifford Geertz begins on p. 33) » Read Now
by Susan R. Trencher. 217 pgs.

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Four early "reflexive ethnographies" which have been the subject of comment by other anthropologists are analyzed in detail and then related to the larger professional and cultural context in which they emerged. These ethnographies are treated as cultural productions, the form and content of which...
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Four early "reflexive ethnographies" which have been the subject of comment by other anthropologists are analyzed in detail and then related to the larger professional and cultural context in which they emerged. These ethnographies are treated as cultural productions, the form and content of which were permeated by the proximate American experience as well as characteristically American constructs for interpreting social reality.
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Talking Culture: Ethnography and Conversation Analysis (Discussion of Clifford Geertz begins on p. 87) » Read Now
by Michael Moerman. 218 pgs.

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...Cultures: Selected Essays , by Clifford Geertz . Copyright 1973 by Basic...Time, and Conduct in Bali , by Clifford Geertz. Cultural Report Series #14, Yale...than the...
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The Ethnocentrism of Clifford Geertz, in New Criterion » Read Now
by Keith Windschuttle. 8 pgs.

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