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Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2011-05-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230118984 |
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Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. To date there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and authoritative work published on this critical figure.
Author | : Clifford Geertz |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0465093566 |
Download The Interpretation of Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.
Author | : Clifford Geertz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780465097197 |
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Reprint. Originally published: 1973. 2000 ed. includes new preface.
Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2011-05-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230118984 |
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Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. To date there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and authoritative work published on this critical figure.
Author | : Abena Dadze-Arthur |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351353187 |
Download An Analysis of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Clifford Geertz has been called ‘the most original anthropologist of his generation’ – and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and approaches of anthropological interpretation that he outlined in The Interpretation of Cultures. The centrality of interpretative skills to anthropology is uncontested: in a subject that is all about understanding mankind, and which seeks to outline the differences and the common ground that exists between cultures, interpretation is the crucial skillset. For Geertz, however, standard interpretative approaches did not go deep enough, and his life’s work concentrated on deepening and perfecting his subject’s interpretative skills. Geertz is best known for his definition of ‘culture,’ and his theory of ‘thick description,’ an influential technique that depends on fresh interpretative approaches. For Geertz, ‘cultures’ are ‘webs of meaning’ in which everyone is suspended. Understanding culture, therefore, is not so much a matter of going in search of law, but of setting out an interpretative framework for meaning that focuses directly on attempts to define the real meaning of things within a given culture. The best way to do this, for Geertz, is via ‘thick description:’ a way of recording things that explores context and surroundings, and articulates meaning within the web of culture. Ambitious and bold, Geertz’s greatest creation is a method all critical thinkers can learn from.
Author | : Clifford Geertz |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008-08-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786723750 |
Download Local Knowledge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion volume to The Interpretation of Cultures, this book continues Geertz’s exploration of the meaning of culture and the importance of shared cultural symbolism. With a new introduction by the author.
Author | : Clifford Geertz |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2016-09-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0008219478 |
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'One of the most articulate cultural anthropologists of this generation. Geertz has consistently attempted to clarify the meaning of 'culture' and to relate that concept to the actual behavior of individuals and groups.' -Elizabeth Colson, Contemporary Sociology
Author | : Richard A. Shweder |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2005-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0226756106 |
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Clifford Geertz is the most influential American anthropologist of the past four decades. His writings have defined and given character to the intellectual agenda of a meaning-centered, nonreductive interpretive social science and have provoked much excitement and debate about the nature of human understanding. As part of the American Anthropological Association's centennial celebration, the executive board sponsored a presidential session honoring Geertz. Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues compiles the twelve speeches given then by a distinguished panel of social scientists along with a concluding piece by Geertz in which he responds to each speaker and reflects on his own career. These edited speeches cover a broad range of topics, including Geertz's views on morality, cultural critique, interpretivism, time and change, Islam, and violence. A fitting tribute to one of the great thinkers of our age, this collection will be enjoyed by anthropologists as well as students of psychology, history, and philosophy.
Author | : Clifford Geertz |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804717472 |
Download Works and Lives Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categoriesthis is magic, that is technologyhas long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of writing, putting things to paper, has now and then occurred to those engaged in producing it, consuming it, or both. But the examination of it as such has been impeded by several considerations, none of them very reasonable. One of these, especially weighty among the producers, has been simply that it is an unanthropological sort of thing to do. What a proper ethnographer ought properly to be doing is going out to places, coming back with information about how people live there, and making that information available to the professional community in practical form, not lounging about in libraries reflecting on literary questions. Excessive concern, which in practice usually means any concern at all, with how ethnographic texts are constructed seems like an unhealthy self-absorptiontime wasting at best, hypochondriacal at worst. The advantage of shifting at least part of our attention from the fascinations of field work, which have held us so long in thrall, to those of writing is not only that this difficulty will become more clearly understood, but also that we shall learn to read with a more percipient eye. A hundred and fifteen years (if we date our profession, as conventionally, from Tylor) of asseverational prose and literary innocence is long enough.
Author | : Susan Slyomovics |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317988175 |
Download Clifford Geertz in Morocco Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Between 1963 and 1986, eminent American anthropologists Clifford and Hildred Geertz - together and alone - conducted ethnographic fieldwork for varying periods in Sefrou, a town situated in north-central Morocco, south of Fez. This book considers Geertz’s contributions to sociocultural theory and symbolic anthropology. Clifford Geertz made an immense impact on the American academy: his interpretative and symbolic approaches reoriented anthropology analytically away from classic social science presuppositions, while his publications profoundly influenced both North American and Maghribi researchers alike. After his death at the age of 80 on October 30, 2006, scholars from local, national, and international universities gathered at the University of California, Los Angeles, to analyze his contributions to sociocultural theory and symbolic anthropology in relation to Islam; ideas of the sacred; Morocco’s cityscapes (notably Sefrou’s bazaar or suq); colonialism and post-independence economic development; gender, and political structures at the household and village levels. This book looks back to a specific era of American anthropology beginning in the 1960s as it unfolded in Morocco; and at the same time, the contributions examine new lines of enquiry that opened up after key texts by Geertz were translated into French and introduced to generations of francophone Maghribi researchers who sustain lively and inventive meditations on his Morocco writings. This book was published as a special issue of Journal of North African Studies.