17th century english ghosts
20th century american anthropology
age of television
american anthropologist
anthropology
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clifford geertz
complicity
cultural
cultural anthropology
cultural studies
culture and history
early capitalism
egyptian women
emotional empathy
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ethnography
fieldwork
himalayan mountaineering
humanities
jewish merchants
sherpas
social sciences
symbolic anthropology
united states of america
Product details
- ISBN 9780520216013
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 29 Nov 1999
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Clifford Geertz is one of the foremost figures in the reconfiguration of the boundary between the social sciences and the humanities in the second half of the twentieth century. Expanding the power and complexity of the anthropological concept of culture, his work is both foundational to, and in critical counterpoint with, that vast interdisciplinary spectrum of scholarship known today as 'cultural studies'. This book brings together seven leading scholars from four disciplines to take a fresh look at Geertz's work, and to consider the continuing implications of his work in the contemporary context. Framed by an important introduction by anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner, the articles cover such topics as seventeenth-century English ghosts, Jewish merchants in early capitalism, Egyptian women in the age of television, and the role of Sherpas in Himalayan mountaineering, as well as such methodological issues as the place of emotional empathy and 'complicity' in ethnographic fieldwork, and the mutual illumination of culture and history.
Sherry B. Ortner is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and is currently completing her third book on the Sherpas of Nepal, Life and Death on Mount Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering.
