Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive AnthropologyBasic Books, 4 aug 2008 - 464 pagina's In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion volume to The Interpretation of Cultures, this book continues Geertz’s exploration of the meaning of culture and the importance of shared cultural symbolism. With a new introduction by the author. |
Inhoudsopgave
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The Refiguration of Social | 19 |
On the Social History | 36 |
On | 55 |
Chapter 4 Common Sense as a Cultural System | 73 |
Chapter 5 Art as a Cultural System | 94 |
Reflections | 121 |
Toward | 147 |
Fact and Law | 167 |
Acknowledgments | 235 |
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Pagina 15 - But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
Pagina 9 - Translation," here, is not a simple recasting of others' ways of putting things in terms of our own ways of putting them (that is the kind in which things get lost), but displaying the logic of their ways of putting them in the locutions of ours...
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