ISBN:
9780674037526
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0674037529
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (198 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library
Series Statement:
The Jerusalem-Harvard lectures
DDC:
301.092
Keywords:
Geertz, Clifford
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Geertz, Clifford
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Geertz, Clifford
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Anthropologists Biography
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United States
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Anthropologists Biography
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Asia
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Anthropology Philosophy
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Anthropologues Biographies
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États-Unis
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Anthropologues Biographies
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Asie
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Anthropologie Philosophie
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Asia Social conditions
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Africa Social conditions
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Asie Conditions sociales
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Afrique Conditions sociales
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"Suppose," Clifford Geertz suggests, "having entangled yourself every now and again over four decades or so in the goings-on in two provincial towns, one a Southeast Asian bend in the road, one a North African outpost and passage point, you wished to say something about how those goings-on had changed." A narrative presents itself, a tour of indices and trends, perhaps a memoir? None, however, will suffice, because in forty years more has changed than those two towns - the anthropologist, for instance, anthropology itself, even the intellectual and moral world in which the discipline exists
Abstract:
To view his two towns in time, Pare in Indonesia and Sefrou in Morocco, Geertz adopts various perspectives on anthropological research and analysis during the post-colonial period, the Cold War, and the emergence of the new states of Asia and Africa. Throughout, he clarifies his own position on a broad series of issues at once empirical, methodological, theoretical, and personal. The result is a truly original book, one that displays a particular way of practicing the human sciences and thus a particular - and particularly efficacious - view of what these sciences are, have been, and should become
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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