Geertz, Clifford

The interpretation of cultures : selected essays by Clifford Geertz ( Book )
95 editions published between 1973 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,629 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about

Local knowledge : further essays in interpretive anthropology by Clifford Geertz ( Book )
48 editions published between 1983 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,613 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

The religion of Java by Clifford Geertz ( Book )
61 editions published between 1960 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,582 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Islam observed; religious development in Morocco and Indonesia by Clifford Geertz ( Book )
42 editions published between 1968 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,399 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mr. Geertz begins his argument by outlining the problem conceptually and providing an overview of the two countries. He then traces the evolution of their classical religious styles which, with disparate settings and unique histories, produced strikingly different spiritual climates. So in Morocco, the Islamic conception of life came to mean activism, moralism, and intense individuality, while in Indonesia the same concept emphasized aestheticism, inwardness, and the radical dissolution of personality. In order to assess the significance of these interesting developments, Mr. Geertz sets forth a series of theoretical observations concerning the social role of religion. -- Back cover

Available light : anthropological reflections on philosophical topics by Clifford Geertz ( Book )
29 editions published between 2000 and 2007 in English and held by 1,341 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this collection of essays, Clifford Geertz explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public, serving as the foremost spokesperson of his generation of scholars, those who came of age after World War II. Geertz, who once considered a career in philosophy, begins by explaining how he got swept into the revolutionary movement of symbolic anthropology. At that point, his work began to encompass not only the ethnography of groups in Southeast Asia and North Africa, but also the study of how meaning is made in all cultures--or, to use his phrase, to explore the "frames of meaning" in which people everywhere live out their lives. His philosophical orientation helped him to establish the role of anthropology within broader intellectual circles and led him to address the work of such leading thinkers as Charles Taylor, Thomas Kuhn, William James, and Jerome Bruner. In this volume, Geertz comments on their work as he explores questions in political philosophy, psychology, and religion that have intrigued him throughout his career but that now hold particular relevance in light of postmodernist thinking and multiculturalism. Available Light offers discussions of concepts such as nation, identity, country, and self, with a reminder that like symbols in general, their meanings are not categorically fixed but grow and change through time and place

Works and lives : the anthropologist as author by Clifford Geertz ( Book )
34 editions published between 1889 and 2007 in English and held by 1,177 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Agricultural involution : the process of ecological change in Indonesia by Clifford Geertz ( Book )
52 editions published between 1963 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,045 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Old societies and new States; the quest for modernity in Asia and Africa by University of Chicago ( Book )
25 editions published between 1963 and 1971 in 3 languages and held by 1,016 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Peddlers and princes; social change and economic modernization in two Indonesian towns by Clifford Geertz ( Book )
39 editions published between 1963 and 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 966 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Negara : the theatre state in nineteenth-century Bali by Clifford Geertz ( Book )
20 editions published in 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 900 WorldCat member libraries worldwide