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Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this collection of personal and revealing essays, he explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public, serving as the foremos...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Geertz, Clifford (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
Series:Anthropology online.
Subjects:
Ethnology.
Philosophy.
Cultural pluralism.
Philosophy
Cultural Diversity
Ethnologie.
Philosophie.
Diversité culturelle.
philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Cultural pluralism
Ethnology
Culturele antropologie.
Filosofie.
Philosophie > Ethnologie.
Ethnologie > Philosophie.
Anthropologie > Philosophie.
Pluralisme (sciences sociales)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. Passage and Accident: A Life of Learning; II. Thinking as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of Anthropological Fieldwork in the New States; III. Anti Anti-Relativism; IV. The Uses of Diversity; V. The State of the Art; VI. The Strange Estrangement: Charles Taylor and the Natural Sciences; VII. The Legacy of Thomas Kuhn: The Right Text at the Right Time; VIII. The Pinch of Destiny: Religion as Experience, Meaning, Identity, Power; IX. Imbalancing Act: Jerome Bruner's Cultural Psychology; X. Culture, Mind, Brain / Brain, Mind, Culture.

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