The interpretation of cultures : selected essays

Author(s)

• Geertz, Clifford

Bibliographic Information

The interpretation of cultures : selected essays

by Clifford Geertz

（Harper torchbooks, TB 5043）

Basic Books, c1973

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Some copies have "Basic Books 50 Years" on cover

Some copies have a author's own added preface "Preface to the 2000 Edition"(August 1999)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In The 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 ground-breaking 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.

Table of Contents

Part I * Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture Part II * The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man * The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind Part III * Religion As a Cultural System * Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols * Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example * Internal Conversion in Contemporary Bali Part IV * Ideology As a Cultural System * After the Revolution: The Fate of Nationalism in the New States * The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States * The Politics of Meaning * Politics Past, Politics Present: Some Notes on the Uses of Anthropology in Understanding the New States PART V * The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Lvi-Strauss * Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali * Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

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Details

• NCID: BA03405942
• ISBN:
  • 0465097197
• LCCN: 73081196
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 470 p.
• Size: 21-25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN315
  • DC : 301.2
  • DC19 : 306
  • NDC8 : 361.5
  • NDC8 : 389
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ethnology
  • LCSH : Culture
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00317011