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Author Geertz, Clifford.

Title The interpretation of cultures; selected essays.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books [1973]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.8 G298I    Check Shelf
Description ix, 470 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Thick description : toward an interpretive theory of culture. -- The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man. -- The growth of culture and the evolution of mind. -- Religion as a cultural system. -- Ethos, world view, and the analysis of sacred symbols. -- Ritual and social change: a Javanese example. -- "Internal conversion" in contemporary Bali. -- Ideology as a cultural system. -- After the revolution : the fate of nationalism in the new states. -- The integrative revolution : primordial sentiments and civil politics in the new states. -- The politics of meaning. -- Politics past, politics present : some notes on the uses of anthropology in understanding the new states. -- The cerebral savage : on the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. -- Person, time, and conduct in Bali. -- Deep play : notes on the Balinese cockfight.
Subject Ethnology.
Culture.
Anthropology, Cultural.
Ethnology.
Culturele antropologie.
ISBN 046503425X
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