Local Knowledge
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“Shrewd and often illuminating."—New York Times
Over his storied career, Clifford Geertz pioneered ground-breaking approaches to anthropology, arguing that interpreting and analyzing cultural symbols was central to understanding a wide range of societies. In Local Knowledge, he revisits and expands the core ideas that reshaped an entire field.
In chapters covering everything from art in Renaissance Italy to political pageantry in Java, Geertz deepens our understanding of human societies though the intimacies...
Published By Basic Books
Format Paperback
Number Of Pages 256
Publication Date 03/11/1985
ISBN 9780465041626
Dimensions 5 inches x 8 inches
“Shrewd and often illuminating."—New York Times
"As an anthropologist, philosopher, political scientist, literary critic, and all-around, all-star intellectual, Clifford Geertz helped a vast public make sense of the human condition."—New York Review of Books
"Clifford Geertz [was] an anthropologist whose imaginative studies of cultural groups from other countries changed the intellectual underpinnings of anthropology and other social sciences.... Dr. Geertz brought a distinctly literary sensibility to the study of anthropology with his sophisticated prose and vivid descriptions of social customs abroad.... Dr. Geertz's ornate, allusive accounts of other cultures came to define a new field of study called ethnography."—Washington Post
"Clifford Geertz is one of those rare scholars: the thinking person's liberal, who spurns easy banalities."—Guardian
"One of the most articulate cultural anthropologists of this generation. Geertz has consistently attempted to clarify the meaning of 'culture' and to relate that concept to the actual behavior of individuals and groups."—Contemporary Sociology