Fate of Culture

Geertz and Beyond

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ID8074580
AuthorsB Ortner (0000-0003-3391-9403, corresponding author)
EditorsSherry B Ortner
Year2000
Publication date2000-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFate of Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/9780520354234
OpenAlexW4389414200
ISBN9780520354234
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Clifford Geertz is one of the foremost figures in the reconfiguration of the boundary between the social sciences and the humanities in the second half of the twentieth century. Expanding the power and complexity of the anthropological concept of culture, his work is both foundational to, and in critical counterpoint with, that vast interdisciplinary spectrum of scholarship known today as "cultural studies." This book brings together seven leading scholars from four disciplines to take a fresh look at Geertz's work, and to consider the continuing implications of his work in the contemporary context. Framed by an important introduction by anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner, the articles cover such topics as seventeenth-century English ghosts, Jewish merchants in early capitalism, Egyptian women in the age of television, and the role of Sherpas in Himalayan mountaineering, as well as such methodological issues as the place of emotional empathy and "complicity" in ethnographic fieldwork, and the mutual illumination of culture and history

Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Legal and cultural studies analysis · South Asian Cinema and Culture

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