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After the Fact

Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist

After the Fact( )
Author: Geertz, Clifford
Series title:Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
ISBN:978-0-674-00871-7
Publication Date:Feb 1995
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $22.95
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Book Details
Pages:208
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.76 Inches
Book Weight:0.94 Pounds
Author Biography
Geertz, Clifford (Author)
Clifford Geertz, an American anthropologist, is known for his studies of Islam in Indonesia and Morocco and of the peasant economy of Java. But he is also the leading exponent of an orientation in the social sciences called "interpretation". Social life, according to this view, is organized in terms of symbols whose meaning we must grasp if we are to understand that organization and formulate its principles. Interpretative explanations focus on what institutions, actions, customs, and so on mean to the people involved. What emerges from studies of this kind are not laws of society, and certainly not statistical relationships, but rather interpretations, that is to say, understanding. Geertz taught for 10 years at the University of Chicago and has been the Harold F. Linder professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

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