| The Fate of Culture: Geertz and Beyond Volume 8 Contributor(s): Ortner, Sherry B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0520216016 ISBN-13: 9780520216013 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1999 Annotation: 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 volume includes contributions by Stephen Greenblatt, Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr., William H. Sewell, Jr., Natalie Zemon Davis, George E. Marcus, and Lila Abu-Lughod. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 306.01 |
| LCCN: 99012900 |
| Series: Representations Books |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 7.09" W x 9.98" (0.76 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |