Clifford Geertz: Culture Custom and Ethics

* This is the first full-length study of Clifford Geertz, who is currently best known anthropologist in the world.
* Summarises and criticises the whole of Geertz's oeuvre, and situates his work in the context of his life and times.
* Explores his main themes of symbolic action, the theatre-state and of culture as narrative, in an engaging style which demonstrates the relevance of Geertz's work to all the human sciences.