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Local knowledge: further essays in interpretive anthropology

Clifford Geertz
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface to the 2000 Edition (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • PART I
    • Chapter 1/ Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought (page 19)
    • Chapter 2/ Found in Translation: On the Social History of the Moral Imagination (page 36)
    • Chapter 3/ "From the Native's Point of View": On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding (page 55)
  • PART II
    • Chapter 4/ Common Sense as a Cultural System (page 73)
    • Chapter 5/ Art as a Cultural System (page 94)
    • Chapter 6/ Centers, Kings, and Chrisma: Reflections on the Symbolics of Power (page 121)
    • Chapter 7/ The Way We Think Now: Toward an Ethnography of Modern Thought (page 147)
  • PART III
    • Chapter 8/ Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective (page 167)
  • Acknowledgments (page 235)
  • Index (page 237)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AE 12.3 (Aug. 1985): 554-555 http://www.jstor.org/stable/644544
AJS 91.1 (Jul. 1985): 164-166 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2779888
AAAG 75.2 (Jun. 1985): 291-293 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2562574
LHO 26.97/98 (Jan. - Jun. 1986): 381-382 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25132237
RPol 48.4 (Autumn 1986): 647-648 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1407396
AANTH 87.1 (Mar. 1985): 164-165 http://www.jstor.org/stable/677693
CS 15.1 (Jan. 1986): 34-37 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2070892
WPQ 39.3 (Sep. 1986): 548-563 http://www.jstor.org/stable/448348
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Published: c2000
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN(s)
  • 9780465041589 (hardcover)
  • 9780465041596 (paper)
  • 9780786723751 (ebook)
Subject
  • Anthropology
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