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1 online resource (272 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Philosophy.
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Anthropology -- Philosophy. |
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Anthropology -- Research.
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Anthropology -- Research. |
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Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
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Anthropology -- Fieldwork. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Inglis, Fred.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Geertz, Clifford. Life among the anthros and other essays. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691143583 (DLC) 2009043977 (OCoLC)457773113 |
| ISBN |
9781400834549 (electronic book) |
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1400834546 (electronic book) |
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1282645005 |
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9781282645004 |
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9780691143583 (alkaline paper) |
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0691143587 (alkaline paper) |
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