Interpretation of Cultures

by Geertz, Clifford

• ISBN13: 9780465097197
• ISBN10: 0465097197
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1977-05-19
• Publisher: HACHETTE

Summary

InThe Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.

Author Biography

Clifford Geertz, the author of many books, is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
PART I	3	(30)
Chapter 1/ Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture	3	(30)
PART II	33	(54)
Chapter 2/ The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man	33	(22)
Chapter 3/ The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind	55	(32)
PART III	87	(106)
Chapter 4/ Religion As a Cultural System	87	(39)
Chapter 5/ Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols	126	(16)
Chapter 6/ Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example	142	(28)
Chapter 7/ "Internal Conversion" in Contemporary Bali	170	(23)
PART IV	193	(152)
Chapter 8/ Ideology As a Cultural System	193	(41)
Chapter 9/ After the Revolution: The Fate of Nationalism in the New States	234	(21)
Chapter 10/ The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States	255	(56)
Chapter 11/ The Politics of Meaning	311	(16)
Chapter 12/ Politics Past, Politics Present: Some Notes on the Uses of Anthropology in Understanding the New States	327	(18)
PART V	345	(110)
Chapter 13/ The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Lévi-Strauss	345	(15)
Chapter 14/ Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali	360	(52)
Chapter 15/ Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight	412	(43)
Acknowledgments	455	(2)
Index	457