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The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

Author:: Clifford Geertz (author)
Language:: English
Original language:: English
Publisher:: Fontana Books
Categories:: Anthology, anthropology, essay and science
Publication year:: 1993
Original publication year:: 1973
ISBN:: 0-00-686260-8
Pages:: 470
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Preface

PART I

Chapter 1/ Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture

PART II

Chapter 2/ The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man

Chapter 3/ The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind

PART III

Chapter 4/ Religion As a Cultural System

Chapter 5/ Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols

Chapter 6/ Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example

Chapter 7/ "Internal Conversion" in Contemporary Bali

PART IV

Chapter 8/ Ideology As a Cultural System

Chapter 9/ After the Revolution: The Fate of Nationalism in the New States

Chapter 10/ The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States

Chapter 11/ The Politics of Meaning

Chapter 12/ Politics Past, Politics Present: Some Notes on the Uses of Anthropology in Understanding the New States

PART V

Chapter 13/ The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Chapter 14/ Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali

Chapter 15/ Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

Acknowledgments

Index