description: This major work, now available in paperback, by one of the worlda s leading anthropologists discusses the style, imagery and metaphor of the great anthropologists, thereby developing Geertza s claim that doing good anthropology is like writing good literature.
language: English
title: Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
titlecomplete: Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
genres: Social Science, Anthropology, Ethnography, History, Writing, Theory, American, Nonfiction, United States, School
ratings_count: 256
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Polity