The Fate of "Culture"
Subtitle: Geertz and Beyond (Representations Books)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 29, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780520216006
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Culture; Sociological Theory; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Geertz, Clifford; Philosophy
First sentence: "ANALYSIS," WRITES CLIFFORD GEERTZ in the essay "Thick Description" that opens his celebrated book, The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), "is sorting out the structures of signification-what Ryle called established codes, a somewhat misleading expression, for it makes the enterprise sound too much like that of the cipher clerk when it is much more like that of the literary critic-and determining their social ground and import."