Presentations at a symposium held Nov. 23, 2002 in New Orleans, La., in celebration of the 100th year anniversary of the formation of the American Anthropological Association. Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-139) and index.
Contents:
Preface / Richard A. Shweder and Byron Good -- Cliff notes : the pluralisms of Clifford Geertz / Richard A. Shweder -- Passing judgment : interpretation, morality, and cultural assessment in the work of Clifford Geertz / Lawrence Rosen -- Celebrating Geertzian interpretivism / Jerome Bruner -- Coded communications : symbolic psychological anthropology / Robert A. LeVine -- Geertz's style : a moral matter / James A. Boon -- Clifford Geertz on time and change / Natalie Zemon Davis -- Happenstance and patterns / Amelie Oksenberg Rorty -- Geertz's concept of culture in historical context : how he saved the day and maybe the century / James Peacock -- Clifford Geertz and Islam / Dale F. Eickelman -- Deep play, violence, and social reconstruction / Michael M.J. Fischer -- Speaking to large issues : the world, if it is not in pieces / Ulf Hannerz -- On the "subject" of culture : subjectivity and cultural phenomenology in the work of Clifford Geertz / Byron Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- Commentary / Clifford Geertz.
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