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Interpreting Clifford Geertz

Part of the Cultural Sociology Book Series

Editors: Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Smith, Philip; Norton, Matthew

DOI: 10.1057/9780230118980

ISBN: 978-0-230-11172-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 25, 2015

1 - 10 of 17 Chapters

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Introduction: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Clifford Geertz

Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Smith, Philip

Pages: 1 –6

[In his analysis of the Bible, entitled The Great Code, Northrop Frye1 observed the history of the Israelites to be an unstable one. First there was obscurity and marginality. Next, prophetic intervention renewed faith and solidarity. Thence came triumph and empire—but after that things would go...
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Semiotics and Thick Description (Barthes and Geertz)

Brooks, Peter

Pages: 9 –16

[Many years ago, I was a participant in a discussion group organized by Richard Sennett that met occasionally to discuss new work of a cultural analysis, “sciences of man” sort—work coming out of structuralism and the poststructuralism that, in the United States, came so closely on its heels....
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The Balinese Cockfight Decoded: Reflections on Geertz and Structuralism

Smith, Philip

Pages: 17 –32

[Every new intellectual movement needs to look back from time to time. Revisiting a point of origin can provide a way to clarify a sense of identity, define a mission, and generate profitable intellectual strategies. At its best such a pilgrimage does more than simply worship slavishly at the...
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On Not Doing Systems

Errington, Joseph

Pages: 33 –41

[In 2002, Arun Micheelsen published an interview with Clifford Geertz under a title taken from a remark in his book Available Light: “I don’t do systems.”1 Micheelsen asked Geertz about this statement in light of his influential articles on cultural “systems” of religion, ideology, common sense,...
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Geertzian Irony

Warnke, Georgia

Pages: 45 –54

[In his Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics,1 Clifford Geertz offers a succinct account of what he learned about anthropology from his graduate student fieldwork. First, “the study of other peoples’ cultures— involves discovering who they think they are, what they...
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Clifford Geertz and the Strong Program: The Human Sciences and Cultural Sociology

Alexander, Jeffrey C.

Pages: 55 –64

[What did Clifford Geertz mean? What was his significance? What did he signify, crystallize, and make possible? These are contentious questions, have been, and will continue to be. There have been decades already of fighting about “Geertz.” Such interpretive disputes are the lot of every...
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Maximal Interpretation in Clifford Geertz and the Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Toward a New Epistemology

Reed, Isaac Ariail

Pages: 65 –76

[The defining epistemological tension of the “cultural turn” is the question as to whether culture should be brought in as one more cause in the study of society and history or whether culture constitutes a world unto itself whose study necessarily eschews explanation and invites or even demands...
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Thick Description as a Cosmopolitan Practice: A Pragmatic Reading

Lichterman, Paul

Pages: 77 –91

[Clifford Geertz’s classic essay on thick description1 is deceptively simple. It is Geertz the raconteur, telling us that when he is in the field with his subjects, he really is just trying to figure out “what the devil they are up to.” Relaxed, amused with himself and his subjects alike, he...
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“Malarial and Diffident”: The Vision of Clifford Geertz

Wagner-Pacifici, Robin

Pages: 93 –102

[The essay “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight,” famously appearing in Clifford Geertz’s collection The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays, is iconic, as evidenced by its ubiquity in this edited volume celebrating Geertz. But it is the opening sentence of the first section (“The...
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Thick Description, Thin History: Did Historians Always Understand Clifford Geertz?

Clark, Stuart

Pages: 105 –119

[In 2006, looking back over 40 years of the practice of history, Keith Thomas concluded that calls for greater use of theory had been “abundantly answered.” He noted the delayed impact of the ideas of, among others, Marx, Durkheim, Freud, Kuhn, Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu, and Clifford Geertz....

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