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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Clifford Geertz
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Geertz, Text, and Structure
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Geertz, Interpretation, and Meaning
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Geertz and the Disciplines
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Geertz, Life, and Work
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About this book
Reviews
"Interpreting Clifford Geertz is a rich, many-sided, and illuminating collection of essays. This volume views Geertz's work from different countries and disciplines and explores its ambiguities and inconsistencies, while also emphasizing that much remains to be learned from it." - Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, the University of Cambridge
"The oeuvre of Clifford Geertz is like a rare gem, demanding examination of its endless facets to appreciate its profundity and radiating influence. Congratulations to the editors for doing just that - bringing together the best and most diverse set of minds to assess this monumental figure in twentieth-century intellectual life. The result is an exceptional book, doing full justice to Geertz and furthering his labors." - Neil J. Smelser, University Professor of Sociology Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
"This is the definitive statement on Geertz.I cannot imagine a more consistently interesting and insightful collection of reflections about Geertz's corpus, and its position in the meaning-centered social sciences. It will be required reading among cultural sociologists for many years to come." - Ronald N. Jacobs, University at Albany, author of The Space of Opinion
About the authors
PHILIP SMITH Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA.
MATTHEW NORTON PhD Candidate at Yale University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interpreting Clifford Geertz
Book Subtitle: Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences
Editors: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Philip Smith, Matthew Norton
Series Title: Cultural Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118980
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Philip Smith, and Matthew Norton 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11171-4Published: 07 June 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11172-1Published: 07 June 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11898-0Published: 09 May 2011
Series ISSN: 2946-3572
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 216
Topics: Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Sociology, general, Anthropology