Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 271 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0691089566
,
0691049742
,
1400823404
,
140081412X
,
9780691089560
,
9781400823406
,
9781400814121
Serie:
Anthropology online
Inhalt:
Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this collection of personal and revealing essays, he explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public, serving as the foremost spokesperson of his generation of scholars, those who came of age after World War II. His reflections are written in a style that both entertains and disconcerts, as they engage us in topics ranging from moral relativism to the relationship between cultural and psychological differences, from the
Inhalt:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. Passage and Accident: A Life of Learning; II. Thinking as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of Anthropological Fieldwork in the New States; III. Anti Anti-Relativism; IV. The Uses of Diversity; V. The State of the Art; VI. The Strange Estrangement: Charles Taylor and the Natural Sciences; VII. The Legacy of Thomas Kuhn: The Right Text at the Right Time; VIII. The Pinch of Destiny: Religion as Experience, Meaning, Identity, Power; IX. Imbalancing Act: Jerome Bruner's Cultural Psychology; X. Culture, Mind, Brain / Brain, Mind, Culture
Anmerkung:
Articles previously published chiefly 1983-1999
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0691049742
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Geertz, Clifford Available light Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, ©2000
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Mehr zum Autor:
Geertz, Clifford 1926-2006
Bookmarklink
