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Clifford Geertz - Life among the Anthros and Other Essays - 9780691156255 - V9780691156255
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Life among the Anthros and Other Essays

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Description for Life among the Anthros and Other Essays Paperback. Editor(s): Inglis, Fred. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691156255
SKU
V9780691156255
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99-15

About Clifford Geertz
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).

Reviews for Life among the Anthros and Other Essays
"Although some are suspicious of collections of published work, part of the power of this volume is its time-capsule quality. It is precisely because we know what comes thereafter that adds drama to witnessing Geertz measure new ideas in real time... You can justify reading this book on the grounds of learning from the intoxicating analysis, all the while covertly enjoying the razor-wire writing."
Timothy Larsen, Books & Culture "Life among the Anthros ... should not be left unread for anyone who wants to see the critical mind of Geertz at play."
Daniel Martin Varisco, Contemporary Islam "Inglis has successfully curated a volume of essays that does not only remind us of the depth and breadth of material that Geertz covered in his prolific scholarly life, but it also illustrates the ways that good humor, open-mindedness, and unapologetic fascination regarding the behavior of the human animal can facilitate the presentation of scholarly discourse to more popular audiences... An eclectic collection of essays."
Sarah Gordon, Journal of Folklore Research

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