The interpretation of cultures
Subtitle: selected essays
By: Clifford Geertz ; with a foreword by Robert Darnton
Contributors: Darnton, Robert, writer of foreword
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9780465093557
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Anthropology; Culture; Ethnology
Work titles: Essays
Notes: "Preface to the 2000 edition": pages x-xiii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-525) and index.
Table of contents: title: Thick description : toward an interpretive theory of culture; title: The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man; title: The growth of culture and the evolution of mind; title: Religion as a cultural system; title: Ethos, world view, and the analysis of sacred symbols; title: Ritual and social change : a Javanese example; title: "internal conversion" in contemporary Bali; title: Ideology as a cultural system; title: After the revolution : the fate of nationalism in the new states; title: The integrative revolution : primordial sentiments and civil politics in the new states; title: The politics of meaning; title: Politics past, politics present : some notes on the uses of anthropology in understanding the new states; title: The cerebral savage : on the work of Caluse Levi-Strauss; title: Person, time, and conduct in Bali; title: Deep play : notes on the Balinese cockfight.