ISBN:
9780691089560
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (288 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Available Light : Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics
DDC:
191
Keywords:
Cultural pluralism
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Ethnology
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Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this collection of personal and revealing essays, he explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public, serving as the foremost spokesperson of his generation of scholars, those who came of age after World War II. His reflections are written in a style that both entertains and disconcerts, as they engage us in topics ranging from moral relativism to the relationship between cultural and psychological differences, from the
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. Passage and Accident: A Life of Learning; Overture; The Bubble; Changing the Subject; Waiting Time; II. Thinking as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of Anthropological Fieldwork in the New States; III. Anti Anti-Relativism; IV. The Uses of Diversity; V. The State of the Art; Waddling In; Culture War; Deep Hanging Out; History and Anthropology; "Local Knowledge" and Its Limits; VI. The Strange Estrangement: Charles Taylor and the Natural Sciences; VII. The Legacy of Thomas Kuhn: The Right Text at the Right Time
Description / Table of Contents:
VIII. The Pinch of Destiny: Religion as Experience, Meaning, Identity, PowerIX. Imbalancing Act: Jerome Bruner's Cultural Psychology; X. Culture, Mind, Brain / Brain, Mind, Culture; XI. The World in Pieces: Culture and Politics at the End of the Century; The World in Pieces; What Is a Country if It Is Not a Nation?; What Is a Culture if It Is Not a Consensus?; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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