Research Catalog

Title

Clifford Geertz : culture, custom, and ethics / Fred Inglis.

Author

Inglis, Fred.

Publication

Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

xii, 207 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This is the first full-scale study of the work of Clifford Geertz, who is one of the best-known anthropologists in the world today. Fred Inglis situates Geertz's thought in the context of his life and times, reviewing its forty-year range." "Geertz's progress is charted in detail by his field work in Java, Bali and Morocco, as well as his work in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His two collections of essays, the Interpretation of Cultures and Local Knowledge, are summarized and criticized. The celebrated and controversial essay on the Balinese cockfight is defended against its critics, and in an extended conclusion, his account of the Balinese Theatre-State is, as Geertz suggests, proposed as a more adequate method for the combined study of culture and politics than the professionals' routine application of heavy-handed concepts such as 'power' and 'status'."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Key contemporary thinkers

Uniform Title

Key contemporary thinkers (Cambridge, England)

Subject

• Geertz, Clifford
• Ethnologists > United States > Biography
• Ethnologists > Indonesia > Biography
• Ethnology > Philosophy
• Indonesia > Social life and customs
• Morocco > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• "A Geertz bibliography": p. [196]-204.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 0745621570 (acid-free paper)
• 0745621589 (pbk : acid-free paper))

LCCN

^^^99056205^

OCLC

• 50666034
• SCSB-11255999

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library