Life among the anthros and other essays

• 作者: Geertz, Clifford.
• 其他作者: Inglis, Fred.
• 出版: Princeton : Princeton University Press c2010.
• 稽核項: 272 p. ;25 cm.
• 標題: Anthropology Fieldwork. , Philosophy. , Anthropology Research. , Fieldwork. , Anthropology , Anthropology Philosophy. , Research.
• ISBN: 0691143587 , 9780691143583
• 附註: 100年度教育部購置教學研究相關圖書儀器及設備計畫. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : the comic vision of Clifford Geertz -- On Malinowski -- On Gandhi -- On Foucault -- On Genet -- Ethnography in China -- In search of North Africa -- Mysteries of Islam -- The last Arab Jews -- House painting : Toutes directions -- On feminism -- Indonesia : starting over -- On the devastation of the Amazon -- Which way to Mecca? pt. 1 -- Which way to Mecca? pt. 2 -- On the state of the world -- The Near East in the Far East -- An inconstant profession -- What is a state if it is not sovereign? -- Shifting aims, moving targets -- What was the Third World revolution?
• 摘要: ""To read this collection is to be reminded how much we have learned from Clifford Geertz, this trailblazer in cultural anthropology and interpretive social science. Two of the great qualities that made him a mentor in this field shine forth in this book: his constant awareness of the near-impossibility of the task of understanding the other without distortion, and the wide and humane sympathies that made him so often succeed in this very task."---Charles Taylor, McGill University" ""This stunning collection---drawn from his earliest reviews to his latest lectures---brings us Clifford Geertz's stilled voice, commenting on the great intellectual and political movements and figures of our time and his own adventures as an anthropologist. Humorous, frank, and wise, with easy access to events and learning all over the world, Geertz urges us to observe and compare difference rather than construct grand schemes. Life among the Anthros and Other Essays is a copious gift to us as we try to understand the uncertainties of the past and prepare for the surprises of the future."---Natalie Zemon Davis, author of Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds" ""A much needed collection. Its core is an excellent, judicious selection of Geertz's essays in the New York Review of Books over more than three decades, plus other key articles that he published elsewhere. This is a remarkable retrospective on Geertz that is not available elsewhere and that captures his public intellectual role acutely and poignantly."---George Marcus, University of California, Irvine". , "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."--BOOK JACKET.
• 系統號: 005061272
• 資料類型: 圖書
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