Clifford Geertz

One of the twentieth century's most influential books, this classic work of anthropology offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture is With The Interpretation of Cultures, the distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz developed the concept of thick description, and in so doing, he virtually rewrote the rules of his field. Culture, Geertz argues, does not drive human behavior. Rather, it is a web of symbols that can help us better understand what that behavior means. A thick description explains not only the behavior, but the context in which it occurs, and to describe something thickly, Geertz argues, is the fundamental role of the anthropologist. Named one of the 100 most important books published since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement, The Interpretation of Cultures transformed how we think about others' cultures and our own. This definitive edition, with a foreword by Robert Darnton, remains an essential book for anthropologists, historians, and anyone else seeking to better understand human cultures.

The Interpretation Of Cultures

In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion volume to The Interpretation of Cultures, this book continues Geertz's exploration of the meaning of culture and the importance of shared cultural symbolism. With a new introduction by the author.

Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology

Local Knowledge

Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

Deep Play

Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics.

Available Light

In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.

Interpretation Of Cultures

La Interpretacion de Las Culturas

Kulturlerin Yorumlanmasi

Part of the material issued in 1958 under title: Modjokuto, religion in Java. Includes index.

The Religion of Java

"In four brief chapters," writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, "I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparative analysis of religion and to apply it to a study of the development of a supposedly single creed, Islam, in two quite contrasting civilizations, the Indonesian and the Moroccan." Mr. Geertz begins his argument by outlining the problem conceptually and providing an overview of the two countries. He then traces the evolution of their classical religious styles which, with disparate settings and unique histories, produced strikingly different spiritual climates. So in Morocco, the Islamic conception of life came to mean activism, moralism, and intense individuality, while in Indonesia the same concept emphasized aestheticism, inwardness, and the radical dissolution of personality. In order to assess the significance of these interesting developments, Mr. Geertz sets forth a series of theoretical observations concerning the social role of religion.

Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia

Islam Observed

The Interpretation of Cultures

'One of the most articulate cultural anthropologists of this generation. Geertz has consistently attempted to clarify the meaning of 'culture' and to relate that concept to the actual behavior of individuals and groups.' -Elizabeth Colson, Contemporary Sociology

The Interpretation of Cultures (Text Only)

The Anthropologist as Author

Works and Lives

dalam masyarakat Jawa

Abangan, santri, priyayi

selected essays

The interpretation of cultures

Esta coletânea de ensaios é uma análise crítica do livro Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon (201), de Patrick Tierney, que faz uma denúncia séria sobre a prática antropológica e de pesquisadores científicos entre os ianomâmis na Amazônia venezuelana, de meados da década de 1960 até meados da década de 1990.

A vida entre os antros e outros ensaios

In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion volume to The Interpretation of Cultures, this book continues Geertz’s exploration of the meaning of culture and the importance of shared cultural symbolism. With a new introduction by the author.

Negara bukanlah suatu tirani, bukan pula suatu birokrasi hidrolik, dan bahkan bukan suatu pemerintahan, melainkan sebuah pertunjukan yang diorganisir, suatu teater yang dipakai untuk mendramatisir obsesi-obsesi kelas yang berkuasa atas budaya Bali: ketimpangan sosial dan kebanggaan status. Dan negara teater ini paling jelas tergambar dalam diri citra induk kehidupan politis, yaitu dalam diri raja. Penulis buku ini menunjukkan bagaimana raja, baik sebagai benda ritual maupun sebagai aktor politis, adalah paradoks dari pasivitas aktif: diam yang berwibawa, kasih yang keras. Semakin dekat dia menjadi gambaran kekuasaan, semakin jauh dia dari mesin-mesin yang mengendalikan kekuasaan ini.

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“An unabashedly honest ethnography . . . [from] a founder of ‘symbolic’ anthropology . . . reflections on his fieldwork over a period of . . . forty years. Brilliant.” (Kirkus Reviews) In looking back on four decades of anthropology in the field, Geertz has created a work that is a personal history as well as a retrospective reflection on developments in the human sciences amid political, social, and cultural changes in the world. An elegant summation of one of the most remarkable careers in anthropology, it is at the same time an eloquent statement of the purposes and possibilities of anthropology's interpretive powers. Through the prism of his fieldwork over forty years in two towns, 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. “Geertz charts the transformation of cultural anthropology from a study of "primitive" people to a multidisciplinary investigation of a particular culture's symbolic systems, its interactions with the larger forces of history and modernization.” —Publishers Weekly “An elegant, almost meditative volume of reflections.” —The New Yorker “[An] engrossing story of a few key moments in American social science during the second half of the twentieth century as [Geetz] participated in them.” —New York Times Book Review

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