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The fate of "culture" : Geertz and beyond

Title
The fate of "culture" : Geertz and beyond / edited by Sherry B. Ortner.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors
Ortner, Sherry B., 1941-
Description
vii, 169 p.; 27 cm.
Series Statement
Representations books ; 8
Uniform Title
Representations (Berkeley, Calif.)
Subjects
Note
  • "The essays in this book were originally published as a special issue of Representations (summer 1997, No. 59)"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Sherry B. Ortner -- The touch of the real / Stephen Greenblatt -- A note on Geertz as a cultural essayist / Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr. -- Geertz, cultural systems, and history : from synchrony to transformation / William H. Sewell, Jr. -- Religion and capitalism once again? : Jewish merchant culture in the seventeenth century / Natalie Zemon Davis -- The uses of complicity in the changing mise-en-scène of anthropological fieldwork / George E. Marcus -- The interpretation of culture(s) after television / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Thick resistance : death and the cultural construction of agency in Himalayan mountaineering / Sherry B. Ortner.
Call Number
JFF 00-784
ISBN
  • 0520216008 (alk. paper)
  • 0520216016 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99012900
OCLC
40838631
Title
The fate of "culture" : Geertz and beyond / edited by Sherry B. Ortner.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
Series
Representations books ; 8
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Ortner, Sherry B., 1941-
Added Title
Representations (Berkeley, Calif.)
Research Call Number
JFF 00-784
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