Geertz Available Light

Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2340-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Clifford Geertz published his famous work, The Interpretation of Cultures, in 1973. It influenced a generation of not only anthropologists but also other scholars and intellectuals. His most recent book is After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist. He is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geertz, Clifford

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

I. Passage and Accident: A Life of Learning 3

Overture 3

The Bubble 3

Changing the Subject 11

Waiting Time 19

II. Thinking as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of Anthropological Fieldwork in the New States 21

III. Anti Anti-Relativism 42

IV. The Uses of Diversity 68

V. The State of the Art 89

Waddling In 89

Culture War 97

Deep Hanging Out 107

History and Anthropology 118

"Local Knowledge" and Its Limits 133

VI. The Strange Estrangement: Charles Taylor and the Natural Sciences 143

VII. The Legacy of Thomas Kuhn: The Right Text at the Right Time 160

VIII. The Pinch of Destiny: Religion as Experience, Meaning, Identity, Power 167

IX. Imbalancing Act: Jerome Bruner's Cultural Psychology 187

X. Culture, Mind, Brain / Brain, Mind, Culture 203

XI.The World in Pieces: Culture and Politics at the End of the Century 218

The World in Pieces 218

What Is a Country if It Is Not a Nation? 231

What Is a Culture if It Is Not a Consensus? 240

Index 205

Über Autor(innen)

Clifford Geertz published his famous work, The Interpretation of Cultures, in 1973. It influenced a generation of not only anthropologists but also other scholars and intellectuals. His most recent book is After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist. He is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.