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Marcus, George E.. Ed(S): Panourgia, Neni - Ethnographica Moralia - 9780823228867 - V9780823228867
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Ethnographica Moralia

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Description for Ethnographica Moralia Hardback. Maps the circuits of cross fertilizations among disciplines in the humanities and social sciences that have developed from Clifford Geertz's "interpretive turn." This volume interrogate the fixity of interpretation and open new spaces of inquiry. Editor(s): Panourgia, Neni. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 517.

Clifford Geertz, in his 1973 Interpretation of Cultures, brought about an epistemological revolution unprecedented since Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism. In place of Lévi-Strauss’s deep structures, Geertz placed “deep meanings” and “thick descriptions,” in a synthesis of the American tradition of cultural anthropology and new qualitative approaches in the humanities. He powerfully synthesized and gave the heart of anthropology’s tradition a new and enriched conceptual language that came to be known as “interpretive anthropology” and that placed meaning over form in the center of social analysis. This book maps the circuits of cross fertilizations among disciplines in the humanities and social sciences that ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823228867
SKU
V9780823228867
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About Marcus, George E.. Ed(S): Panourgia, Neni
Neni Panourgiá is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She has published Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography, winner of the Grand Jury Prize of the International Society of Ethnohistory and co-winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize. George Marcus is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of ... Read more

Reviews for Ethnographica Moralia
"In this important new book, Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology, editors Neni Panourgia and George E. Marcus have assembled an impressive array of chapters that map the crisscrossing circuits of interpretative inquiry that have followed from Clifford Geertz's (and Marcus's) original arguments." -American Ethnologist "Whether self-reflexive, self-critical or engaged in radical refashioning, the strength of the discipline as it ... Read more

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