Clifford Geertz

Description

"This is the first full-scale study of the work of Clifford Geertz, who is one of the best-known anthropologists in the world today. Fred Inglis situates Geertz's thought in the context of his life and times, reviewing its forty-year range." "Geertz's progress is charted in detail by his field work in Java, Bali and Morocco, as well as his work in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His two collections of essays, the Interpretation of Cultures and Local Knowledge, are summarized and criticized. The celebrated and controversial essay on the Balinese cockfight is defended against its critics, and in an extended conclusion, his account of the Balinese Theatre-State is, as Geertz suggests, proposed as a more adequate method for the combined study of culture and politics than the professionals' routine application of heavy-handed concepts such as 'power' and 'status'."--Jacket.

First Sentence

Clifford Geertz is the foremost anthropologist of our day and, one might add, of the past thirty years.

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Other Editions

• Clifford Geertz: Culture, Custom and Ethics (Key Contemporary Thinkers)PaperbackPolity Press2000-06-01
• Clifford GeertzHardcoverPolity Press2000-07-01