Life among the Anthros and Other Essays / / Clifford Geertz; ed. by Fred Inglis.

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• VerfasserIn: Geertz, Clifford,
• HerausgeberIn: Inglis, Fred,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Comic Vision of Clifford Geertz -- Part I. Sages and Anthropologists -- 1967: On Malinowski -- 1969: On Gandhi -- 1978: On Foucault -- 1992: On Genet -- 2001: Ethnography in China -- Part II. Islams and the Fluidity of Nations -- 1971: In Search of North Africa -- 1975: Mysteries of Islam -- 1985: The Last Arab Jews -- 1989: House Painting: Toutes Directions -- 1990: On Feminism -- 2000: Indonesia: Starting Over -- 2001: On the Devastation of the Amazon -- 2003: Which Way to Mecca? Part I -- 2003: Which Way to Mecca? Part II -- 2005: On the State of the World -- Part III. The Idea of Order: Last Lectures -- 2001: The Near East in the Far East -- 2002: An Inconstant Profession -- 2004: What Is a State If It Is Not a Sovereign? -- 2005: Shifting Aims, Moving Targets -- 2005: What Was the Third World Revolution? -- Acknowledgments And Editorial Details -- Notes -- Index