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Jun 1, 1989 · Geertz compares the literary styles of Claude Levi-Strauss, Edward Evans-Pritchard and Bronislaw Malinowski, among others, and calls upon present-day ethnographers to enliven and substantiate their work by paying attention not only to what they write, but how they write as well. Work and Lives won a National Book Critics Circle Award ...
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Jul 14, 2009 · Works and lives : the anthropologist as author : Geertz, Clifford : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Geertz, Clifford. Publication date. 1988. Topics. Ethnology, Ethnologie, Cultureel antropologen, Auteurschap, Vakbeoefening. Publisher. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press. Collection.
This major work, now available in paperback, by one of the worlds leading anthropologists discusses the style, imagery and metaphor of the great anthropologists, thereby developing Geertzs claim that doing good anthropology is like writing good literature.
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Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Clifford Geertz. Stanford University Press, 1988 - Social Science - 157 pages. The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and...
Jan 1, 1988 · Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Clifford Geertz. 3.90. 259 ratings9 reviews. The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categories―this is magic, that is technology―has long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear.
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Clifford Geertz is known for his work on the interpretation of cultural forms. In this book he develops his view that anthropology should be understood as a kind of writing: doing good...
Aug 21, 1998 · Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author Paperback – August 21, 1998. by Clifford Geertz (Author) 4.8 13 ratings. See all formats and editions.
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