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14%OFFClifford Geertz - After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist: 5 (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) - 9780674008724 - V9780674008724
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After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist: 5 (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

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Description for After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist: 5 (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) paperback. In looking back on four decades of anthropology in the field, Geertz creates a personal history that is also a retrospective reflection on developments in the human sciences amid political, social, and cultural changes in the world. Series: The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 1HBM; GTF; HBJF; HBJH; HBLW; JHBC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.

"Suppose," Clifford Geertz suggests, "having entangled yourself every now and again over four decades or so in the goings-on in two provincial towns, one a Southeast Asian bend in the road, one a North African outpost and passage point, you wished to say something about how those goings-on had changed." A narrative presents itself, a tour of indices and trends, perhaps a memoir? None, however, will suffice, because in forty years more has changed than those two towns--the anthropologist, for instance, anthropology itself, even the intellectual and moral world in which the discipline exists. And so, in looking back on ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674008724
SKU
V9780674008724
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99-1

About Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz was Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Reviews for After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist: 5 (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
'It is difficult to know what to do with the past,' Geertz writes, but of his own past he has made an elegant, almost meditative volume of reflections. In prose that is sometimes liquid, sometimes faux-Jamesian, Geertz looks back over the sites of his anthropological labors: Sefrou, in Morocco; Pare, in Indonesia; the University of Chicago; the Institute for Advanced ... Read more

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