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Clifford Geertz | 258 pages | 14 Jun 1993 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9780006862642 | English | London, United Kingdom Local knowledge: further essays in interpretive anthropology

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Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Ho trovato invece in rete il suo riassunto in. Questo lavoro mi ha comportato una mattinata di tempo, compresa la lettura, per cui mi attribuisco come lette tutte le pagine del testo originale. Sono una raccolta di otto saggi, tutti molto interessanti anche per i non addetti ai lavori, che interpretano le manifestazioni culturali di alcuni popoli, secondo una visione non occidentale- centrica e a volte intimamente conflittuale rispetto ad alcuni temi: arte, morale, diritto, senso comune, potere, oltre che dare indicazioni di etnografia moderna, pensiero sociale, comprensione antropologica. Sep 29, David rated it it was amazing. The real mystery that awes and intrigues Geertz, however, is not how unknowable we must be to one another, locked as we are into our relativistic local prisons, but how humans manage -- and we do somehow manage -- to make ourselves comprehensible to one another and to make our cultures in their various local strangenesses available to one another or semi translatable into one anothers' terms. What that work of comprehension or translation is, and how study in the and social sciences might contribute to it, is for me the true subject and interest of the book. Jan 14, Adam rated it it was ok. Came across him in more depth in an anthropology class. Still trying to figure more out about him. Oct 19, Jennifer Jang rated it it was amazing. To me, present day , in an obsession with the scientific, seems to pursue physiological processes and correlations rather than incisive understandings of what is means to be human. Whenever those inconvenient questions arise, psychologists seem to relegate them to fields of and philosophy. May 11, Joe rated it really liked it. This is an interesting collection of essays with though provoking analysis and thought. The author also uses his humor and wit to make an academic subject enjoyable to read. Oct 27, Greg rated it it was amazing Shelves: anthropology. This is an excellent collection of lectures that Geertz gave in the 70s and 80s on various topics including art and from an anthropological perspective. The most valuable lectures cover the state of the practice of anthropology itself and by extension sociology, since the only difference between the two is sociology is about "us" and anthropology is about "them". Chapters should be read by anyone contemplating entering the field of cultural Geertz prefers interpretive anthropology. K This is an excellent collection of lectures that Geertz gave in the 70s and 80s on various topics including art and law from an anthropological perspective. Know what you are getting in for. Oct 08, Logan Bickel rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Anyone with a fundemental interest in culture. This is a spectacular medium through one can contemplate multiple humanitarian discussions. From art to imagination and then to morals, culture is affectively examined in this collection of essays. Clifford Geertz does a wonderful job drawing the reader in to the book to form their own opinions and to further augment their spectrum of possible beliefs. Here, less convincingly, he is exploring theories and the tension between various forms of ""local knowledge"" art, common sense, custom and ""generalized knowledge. Geertz delights to think, for example, that what he and Lionel Trilling do is essentially the same thing. Literary criticism and interpretive anthropology are ""not just cognate activities. They are the same activity differently pursued. If all this talk led to dramatic new insights in the empirical essays the one, for instance, on charisma in Tudor England, Hindu Java, and Muslim Morocco , we would eagerly follow the new path out of the theoretical maze. But it leads simply to more talk. In the lengthy essay on ""Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective,"" Geertz reminds his Yale Law School audience that ""Law may not be a brooding omnipresence in the sky. An Anschauung in the marketplace would be more like it. It is that the world is a various place. Another of Geertz's philosophical influences is that of Ludwig Wittgenstein 's post-analytic philosophy, from which Geertz incorporates the concept of family resemblances into anthropology. At the University of Chicago , Geertz became a champion of , a framework which gives prime attention to the role of symbols in constructing public meaning. In his seminal work The Interpretation of Cultures , Geertz outlined culture as "a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life. He was one of the earliest scholars to see that the insights provided by common language, philosophy and literary analysis could have major explanatory force in the social sciences. Believing…that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun…I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretative one in search of meaning. It is explication I am after, construing social expression on their surface enigmatical. It is not against a body of uninterrupted data, radically thinned descriptions, that we must measure the cogency of our explications, but against the power of the scientific imagination to bring us into touch with the lives of strangers. In seeking to converse with subjects in foreign cultures and gain access to their conceptual world, this is the goal of the semiotic approach to culture. During Geertz's long career he worked through a variety of theoretical phases and schools of thought. He would reflect an early leaning toward functionalism in his essay "Ethos, Worldview and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols", writing that "the drive to make sense out of experience, to give it form and order, is evidently as real and pressing as the more familiar biological needs. Geertz's research and ideas have had a strong influence on 20th-century academia, including modern anthropology and , as well as for geographers, ecologists, political scientists, scholars of religion, historians, and other humanists. University of Miami Professor Daniel Pals wrote of Geertz that "his critics are few; his admirers legion. Asad also pointed out the need for a more nuanced approach toward the historical background of certain concepts. Furthermore, Asad criticized Geertz for operating according to a eurocentric view of religion that places import on signs and symbols that may or may not carry through in other non Judeo-Christian religious cultures. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Clifford Geertz. San Francisco , California. Philadelphia , Pennsylvania. Outline History. Archaeological Biological Cultural Linguistic Social. Social Cultural. Research framework. Key concepts. Key theories. Actor—network theory Alliance theory Cross-cultural studies Cultural materialism Culture theory Diffusionism Feminism Historical particularism Boasian anthropology Functionalism Interpretive Performance studies Political economy Practice theory Structuralism Post-structuralism Systems theory. Anthropologists by nationality Anthropology by year Bibliography Journals List of indigenous peoples Organizations. Main article: List of important publications in anthropology. Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science. Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology | Semantic Scholar

Geertz's research and ideas have had a strong influence on 20th-century academia, including modern anthropology and communication studies, as well as for geographers, ecologists, political scientists, scholars of religion, historians, and other humanists. University of Miami Professor Daniel Pals wrote of Geertz that "his critics are few; his admirers legion. Asad also pointed out the need for a more nuanced approach toward the historical background of certain concepts. Furthermore, Asad criticized Geertz for operating according to a eurocentric view of religion that places import on signs and symbols that may or may not carry through in other non Judeo-Christian religious cultures. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Clifford Geertz. San Francisco , California. Philadelphia , Pennsylvania. Outline History. Archaeological Biological Cultural Linguistic Social. Social Cultural. Research framework. Key concepts. Key theories. Actor—network theory Alliance theory Cross-cultural studies Cultural materialism Culture theory Diffusionism Feminism Historical particularism Boasian anthropology Functionalism Interpretive Performance studies Political economy Practice theory Structuralism Post-structuralism Systems theory. Anthropologists by nationality Anthropology by year Bibliography Journals List of indigenous peoples Organizations. Main article: List of important publications in anthropology. Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science. Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Boston: Harvard University Press. Department of Anthropology. Indiana University Bloomington. Retrieved New York: Basic Books. The Interpretation of Cultures. Archived from the original on The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. London: Fontana Press. The Journal of Religion. Anthropological Concepts of Religion: Reflections on Geertz. Man N. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote. Antioch College B. Harvard University Ph. Epochalism. George E. Geertz Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton regards the anthropologist as one who uncovers layers of meaning in Geertz Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton regards the anthropologist as one who uncovers layers of meaning in one culture and translates them into the terms of another culture--in the mode of his classic analysis of a Balinese cockfight, in The Interpretation of Cultures. Here, less convincingly, he is exploring theories and the tension between various forms of ""local knowledge"" art, common sense, custom and ""generalized knowledge. Geertz delights to think, for example, that what he and Lionel Trilling do is essentially the same thing. Literary criticism and interpretive anthropology are ""not just cognate activities. They are the same activity differently pursued. If all this talk led to dramatic new insights in the empirical essays the one, for instance, on charisma in Tudor England, Hindu Java, and Muslim Morocco , we would eagerly follow the new path out of the theoretical maze. But it leads simply to more talk. In the lengthy essay on ""Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective,"" Geertz reminds his Yale Law School audience that ""Law may not be a brooding omnipresence in the sky. An Anschauung in the marketplace would be more like it. It is that the world is a various place. Does the anthropologist really have a new set of clothes? Given Geertz's eminence, some may think so. Already have an account?

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He would then attend Harvard University , graduating in as a student in the Department of Social Relations, an interdisciplinary program led by Talcott Parsons. As such, Geertz would work with Parsons, as well as Clyde Kluckhohn , training as an anthropologist. Geertz would conduct his first long-term fieldwork together with his wife, Hildred, in Java , Indonesia , a project funded by the Ford Foundation and MIT. He would also study the religious life of a small, upcountry town for two-and-a-half years, living with a railroad laborer's family. After finishing his thesis, Geertz returned to Indonesia, in Bali and Sumatra , [3] : 10 after which he would receive his Ph. Throughout his life, Geertz received honorary doctorate degrees from around fifteen colleges and universities, including Harvard, Cambridge , and the University of Chicago ; as well as awards such as the Association for Asian Studies ' AAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies. He taught or held fellowships at a number of schools before joining the faculty of the anthropology department at the University of Chicago in In this period Geertz expanded his focus on Indonesia to include both Java and Bali and produced three books, including Religion of Java , Agricultural Involution , and Peddlers and Princes also In the mids, he shifted course and began a new research project in Morocco that resulted in several publications, including Islam Observed , which compared Indonesia and Morocco. In , Geertz left Chicago to become professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey from to , then as emeritus professor. In , he published The Interpretation of Cultures , which collected essays Geertz had published throughout the s. That became Geertz's best-known book and established him not just as an Indonesianist but also as an anthropological theorist. In , he edited the anthology Myth, Symbol, Culture that contained papers by many important anthropologists on symbolic anthropology. Geertz produced ethnographic pieces in this period, such as in Bali , Meaning and Order in Moroccan ; written collaboratively with Hildred Geertz and Lawrence Rosen and Negara From the s to his death, Geertz wrote more theoretical and essayistic pieces, including book reviews for the New York Review of Books. As a result, most of his books of the period are collections of essays—books including Local Knowledge , Available Light , and Life Among The Anthros , which was published posthumously. He would also produced a series of short essays on the stylistics of in Works and Lives , while other works include the autobiographical After The Fact Geertz conducted extensive ethnographic research in Southeast Asia and North Africa. This fieldwork was the basis of Geertz's famous analysis of the Balinese cockfight among others. While holding a position in Chicago in the s, he would be director of a multidisciplinary project titled Committee for the Comparative Studies of New Nations. As part of the project, Geertz conducted fieldwork in Morocco on "bazaars, mosques, olive growing and oral poetry," [3] : 10 collecting ethnographic data that would be used for his famous essay on thick description. Geertz contributed to social and cultural theory and is still influential in turning anthropology toward a concern with the frames of meaning within which various peoples live their lives. He reflected on the basic core notions of anthropology , such as culture and ethnography. He would eventually die of complications following heart surgery on October 30, Geertz's often-cited essay " Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight " [8] is a classic example of thick description , a concept adopted from the British philosopher Gilbert Ryle which comes from ordinary language philosophy. Thick description is an anthropological method of explaining with as much detail as possible the reason behind human actions. The work proved influential amongst historians, many of whom tried to use these ideas about the 'meaning' of cultural practice in the study of customs and traditions of the past. Another of Geertz's philosophical influences is that of Ludwig Wittgenstein 's post-analytic philosophy, from which Geertz incorporates the concept of family resemblances into anthropology. At the University of Chicago , Geertz became a champion of symbolic anthropology , a framework which gives prime attention to the role of symbols in constructing public meaning. In his seminal work The Interpretation of Cultures , Geertz outlined culture as "a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life. He was one of the earliest scholars to see that the insights provided by common language, philosophy and literary analysis could have major explanatory force in the social sciences. Believing…that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun…I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretative one in search of meaning. It is explication I am after, construing social expression on their surface enigmatical. It is not against a body of uninterrupted data, radically thinned descriptions, that we must measure the cogency of our explications, but against the power of the scientific imagination to bring us into touch with the lives of strangers. In seeking to converse with subjects in foreign cultures and gain access to their conceptual world, this is the goal of the semiotic approach to culture. During Geertz's long career he worked through a variety of theoretical phases and schools of thought. He would reflect an early leaning toward functionalism in his essay "Ethos, Worldview and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols", writing that "the drive to make sense out of experience, to give it form and order, is evidently as real and pressing as the more familiar biological needs. Geertz's research and ideas have had a strong influence on 20th-century academia, including modern anthropology and communication studies, as well as for geographers, ecologists, political scientists, scholars of religion, historians, and other humanists. University of Miami Professor Daniel Pals wrote of Geertz that "his critics are few; his admirers legion. Asad also pointed out the need for a more nuanced approach toward the historical background of certain concepts. Furthermore, Asad criticized Geertz for operating according to a eurocentric view of religion that places import on signs and symbols that may or may not carry through in other non Judeo-Christian religious cultures. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It is that the world is a various place. Does the anthropologist really have a new set of clothes? Given Geertz's eminence, some may think so. Already have an account? Log in. Trouble signing in? Retrieve credentials. Sign Up. Pub Date: Sept. Page Count: - Publisher: Basic Books. Please sign up to continue. Almost there! Reader Writer Industry Professional. 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