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After the Fact Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist
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Sprache:Englisch
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Erscheinungsdatum
18.01.2023
Verlag
Harvard University PressSeitenzahl
208 (Printausgabe)
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3198 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780674254039
"
An unabashedly honest ethnography... [from] a founder of 'symbolic' anthropology... reflections on his fieldwork over a period of... forty years. Brilliant." (Kirkus Reviews)
In looking back on four decades of anthropology in the field, Geertz has created a work that is a personal history as well as a retrospective reflection on developments in the human sciences amid political, social, and cultural changes in the world. An elegant summation of one of the most remarkable careers in anthropology, it is at the same time an eloquent statement of the purposes and possibilities of anthropology's interpretive powers.
Through the prism of his fieldwork over forty years in two towns, Pare in Indonesia and Sefrou in Morocco, Geertz adopts various perspectives on anthropological research and analysis during the post-colonial period, the Cold War, and the emergence of the new states of Asia and Africa. Throughout, he clarifies his own position on a broad series of issues at once empirical, methodological, theoretical, and personal. The result is a truly original book, one that displays a particular way of practicing the human sciences and thus a particular-and particularly efficacious-view of what these sciences are, have been, and should become.
"Geertz charts the transformation of cultural anthropology from a study of "primitive" people to a multidisciplinary investigation of a particular culture's symbolic systems, its interactions with the larger forces of history and modernization." -
Publishers Weekly
"An elegant, almost meditative volume of reflections." -
The New Yorker
"[An] engrossing story of a few key moments in American social science during the second half of the twentieth century as [Geetz] participated in them." -
New York Times Book Review
An unabashedly honest ethnography... [from] a founder of 'symbolic' anthropology... reflections on his fieldwork over a period of... forty years. Brilliant." (Kirkus Reviews)
In looking back on four decades of anthropology in the field, Geertz has created a work that is a personal history as well as a retrospective reflection on developments in the human sciences amid political, social, and cultural changes in the world. An elegant summation of one of the most remarkable careers in anthropology, it is at the same time an eloquent statement of the purposes and possibilities of anthropology's interpretive powers.
Through the prism of his fieldwork over forty years in two towns, Pare in Indonesia and Sefrou in Morocco, Geertz adopts various perspectives on anthropological research and analysis during the post-colonial period, the Cold War, and the emergence of the new states of Asia and Africa. Throughout, he clarifies his own position on a broad series of issues at once empirical, methodological, theoretical, and personal. The result is a truly original book, one that displays a particular way of practicing the human sciences and thus a particular-and particularly efficacious-view of what these sciences are, have been, and should become.
"Geertz charts the transformation of cultural anthropology from a study of "primitive" people to a multidisciplinary investigation of a particular culture's symbolic systems, its interactions with the larger forces of history and modernization." -
Publishers Weekly
"An elegant, almost meditative volume of reflections." -
The New Yorker
"[An] engrossing story of a few key moments in American social science during the second half of the twentieth century as [Geetz] participated in them." -
New York Times Book Review
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