Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues

Name: Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues
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ISBN: 9780226756097

ISBN-10: 0226756092

ISBN-13: 9780226756097

Edition: 2005

Authors: Richard A. Shweder, Byron Good, Byron Good

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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…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/15/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Preface




Cliff Notes: The Pluralisms of Clifford Geertz




Passing Judgment: Interpretation, Morality, and Cultural Assessment in the Work of Clifford Geertz




Celebrating Geertzian Interpretivism




Coded Communications: Symbolic Psychological Anthropology




Geertz's Style: A Moral Matter




Clifford Geertz on Time and Change Natalie




Happenstance and Patterns Amelie




Geertz's Concept of Culture in Historical Context: How He Saved the Day and Maybe the Century




Clifford Geertz and Islam




Deep Play, Violence, and Social Reconstruction




Speaking to Large Issues: The World, If It Is Not in Pieces Ulf Hannerz



On the "Subject" of Culture: Subjectivity and Cultural Phenomenology in the Work of Clifford Geertz




Commentary Clifford Geertz


Appendix


Index