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The interpretation of cultures: selected essays

Clifford Geertz c1973 © Hachette Book Group
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  • 9780786725007 (ebook)
  • 9780465097197 (paper)
  • 9780465034253 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: General & Multiperiod
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface to the 2000 Edition (page v)
  • Preface (page vii)
  • PART I
    • Chapter 1/ Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture (page 3)
  • PART II
    • Chapter 2/ The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man (page 33)
    • Chapter 3/ The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind (page 55)
  • PART III
    • Chapter 4/ Religion As a Cultural System (page 87)
    • Chapter 5/ Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols (page 126)
    • Chapter 6/ Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example (page 142)
    • Chapter 7/ "Internal Conversion" in Contemporary Bali (page 170)
  • PART IV
    • Chapter 8/ Ideology As a Cultural System (page 193)
    • Chapter 9/ After the Revolution: The Fate of Nationalism in the New States (page 234)
    • Chapter 10/ The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States (page 255)
    • Chapter 11/ The Politics of Meaning (page 311)
    • Chapter 12/ Politics Past, Politics Present: Some Notes on the Uses of Anthropology in Understanding the New States (page 327)
  • PART V
    • Chapter 13/ The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Lévi-Strauss (page 345)
    • Chapter 14/ Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali (page 360)
    • Chapter 15/ Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (page 412)
  • Acknowledgments (page 455)
  • Index (page 457)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CS 25.3 (May 1996): 299-302 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28199605%2925%3A3%3C299%3AGAL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
CS 4.6 (Nov 1975): 637-638 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28197511%294%3A6%3C637%3ATIOCSE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y
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