Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology (Basic Books Classics)

As an anthropologist and a teacher, this is required reading for my students. I provides a perspective from one of the leaders in the discipline.

Cultural scholarship has grown to depend upon people like Clifford Geertz for the conceptual tools required for such studies. Representations, events, societies, individuals, institutions, economies, material practices, et al, interact with such a degree of complexity that conceptual tools and methods, such as those discussed in these essays, allow anyone interested in exploring the meaning of culture the opportunity to ride the avalanche of symbols which both clarify and confuse that meaning.

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It's difficult to understand, but you will learn more about anthropology than you did before. I had to read a lot of Geertz as an anthropology student, so you sort of get used to it. This was something I didn't necessarily mind reading or keeping for reference.-Kris Noel Lionhead (Volume 1) The Serenity Compound

A very bad print of the great book of Clifford Geertz. The pages are badly cut, there is no blank space in the external side.

,Superb introduction to new thinking and very well written. Has accessible language for newcomer but much for the more expert

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