Research Catalog

Title

Available light : anthropological reflections on philosophical topics / Clifford Geertz.

Author

Geertz, Clifford.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

xvi, 271 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Clifford Geertz explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public. His reflections engage us in topics ranging from moral relativism to the relationship between cultural and psychological differences, from the diversity and tension among activist faiths to "ethnic conflict" in today's politics."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Ethnology
• Philosophy
• Cultural pluralism

Note

• Articles previously published chiefly 1983-1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Passage and Accident: A Life of Learning -- 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 -- VI. The Strange Estrangement: Charles Taylor and the Natural Sciences -- VII. The Legacy of Thomas Kuhn: The Right Text at the Right Time -- VIII. The Pinch of Destiny: Religion as Experience, Meaning, Identity, Power -- IX. 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.

ISBN

0691049742 (CL : acid-free paper)

LCCN

99054958

OCLC

• ocm42733690
• SCSB-3867329

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries