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Available Light : : Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics / / Clifford Geertz.

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Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this collection of personal and revealing essays, he explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public, serving as the foremos...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Geertz, Clifford,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2001
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. Passage and Accident: A Life of Learning
  • II. Thinking as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of Anthropological Fieldwork in the New States
  • III. Anti Anti-Relativism
  • IV. The Uses of Diversity
  • V. The State of the Art
  • VI. The Strange Estrangement: Charles Taylor and the Natural Sciences
  • VII. The Legacy of Thomas Kuhn: The Right Text at the Right Time
  • VIII. The Pinch of Destiny: Religion as Experience, Meaning, Identity, Power
  • IX. Imbalancing Act: Jerome Bruner's Cultural Psychology
  • X. Culture, Mind, Brain / Brain, Mind, Culture
  • XI. The World in Pieces: Culture and Politics at the End of the Century
  • Index

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