Life Among the Anthros

And Other Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-691-15625-5
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 391 g

Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was perhaps the most influential anthropologist of our time, but his influence extended far beyond his field to encompass all facets of contemporary life. Nowhere were his gifts for directness, humor, and steady revelation more evident than in the pages of the New York Review of Books, where for nearly four decades he shared his acute vision of the world in all its peculiarity. This book brings together the finest of Geertz's review essays from the New York Review along with a representative selection of later pieces written at the height of his powers, some that first appeared in periodicals such as Dissent, others never before published. This collection exemplifies Geertz's extraordinary range of concerns, beginning with his first essay for the Review in 1967, in which he reviews, with muffled hilarity, the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. This book includes Geertz's unflinching meditations on Western academia's encounters with the non-Western world, and on the shifting and clashing places of societies in the world generally. Geertz writes eloquently and arrestingly about such major figures as Gandhi, Foucault, and Genet, and on topics as varied as Islam, globalization, feminism, and the failings of nationalism. Life among the Anthros and Other Essays demonstrates Geertz's uncommon wisdom and consistently keen and hopeful humor, confirming his status as one of our most important and enduring public intellectuals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geertz, Clifford

Inglis, Fred

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Comic Vision of Cliff ord Geertz 1

Part I: Sages and Anthropologists

1967 On Malinowski 15

1969 On Gandhi 21

1978 On Foucault 29

1992 On Genet 39

2001 Ethnography in China 47

Part II: Islams and the Fluidity of Nations

1971 In Search of North Africa 61

1975 Mysteries of Islam 71

1985 The Last Arab Jews 81

1989 House Painting: Toutes Directions 88

1990 On Feminism 101

2000 Indonesia: Starting Over 112

2001 On the Devastation of the Amazon 123

2003 Which Way to Mecca? Part I 135

2003 Which Way To Mecca? Part II 145

2005 On the State of the World 157

Part III: Th e Idea of Order: Last Lectures

2001 Th e Near East in the Far East 169

2002 An Inconstant Profession 185

2004 What Is a State If It Is Not a Sovereign? 200

2005 Shifting Aims, Moving Targets 219

2005 What Was the Th ird World Revolution? 236

Acknowledgments and Editorial Details 253

Notes 255

Index 265

Über Autor(innen)

Clifford Geertz was professor emeritus in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His many books include "The Interpretation of Cultures" (Basic), "Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali" (Princeton), and "Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics "(Princeton). Fred Inglis is Honorary Professor of Cultural History at the University of Warwick and former member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is the author of "Clifford Geertz: Culture, Custom, and Ethics" and "A Short History of Celebrity" (Princeton).