Amb "La interpretació de les cultures", publicada originalment en 1973, l''antropòleg cultural nord-americà més influent del segle XX, va més enllà dels límits tradicionals de la disciplina...
Originally published in 1979, Clifford Geertzâs essay on the Moroccan bazaar is a classic ethnographic account of the interplay of economic, social, and religious lives in the bustle of transaction. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the...
With The Interpretation of Cultures , the distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz developed the concept of thick description, and in so doing, he virtually rewrote the rules of his field. Culture, Geertz argues, does not drive human behavior. Rather,...
This work constitutes the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of "kinship system." Hildred and Clifford Geertz's findings challenge the prevailing...
The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categoriesÂthis is magic, that is technologyÂhas long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That...
"A remarkably interesting account of Indonesian agricultural history, primarily covering the period of Dutch control, from 1619 to 1942. Drawing on ecology, sociology, and economics, Geertz..provides an insightful and persuasive analysis."â...
In a closely observed study of two Indonesian towns, Clifford Geertz analyzes the process of economic change in terms of people and behavior patterns rather than income and production. One of the rare empirical studies of the earliest stages of the transi...