Clifford Geertz: Culture Custom and EthicsISBN: 978-0-7456-2158-6
Paperback
224 pages
July 2000, Polity
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* 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.
* 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.