Clifford Geertz (Record no. 69135)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780745621586
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 306 ING
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Inglis,Fred
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Clifford Geertz
Remainder of title : Culture, Custom and Ethics
Statement of responsibility, etc / Fred Inglis
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Cambridge
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Polity Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc ,2000
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 207p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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. In a lively and accessible introduction to his work, Fred Inglis situates Geertz's thought in the context of his life and times, reviewing its forty-year range.<br/>The book begins with a chapter-long biography, and places Geertz in the anthropological tradition from which he broke so decisively. This break was inspired by the work of Wittgenstein and Kenneth Burke, who provided Geertz with the lead to construct his theory of symbolic action. This theory was vigorously at odds with the dominant idiom of scientistic inquiry in the human sciences, and since then Geertz has led the practice of these sciences in quite a different direction. 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 remarkable collections of essays, the Interpretation of Cultures and Local Knowledge, are enthusiastically summarized and criticized. The celebrated and controversial essay on the Balinese cock fight 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'. This book provides a comprehensive overview of one of the most gripping, lucid and entertaining of contemporary thinkers, and in so doing, makes anthropology once again the popular science. It will be of great interest to anthropologists and to students and scholars of cultural studies.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Science
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Anthropology
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Koha item type Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 08/06/2026   306 ING G8012 08/06/2026 08/06/2026 Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
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