Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was perhaps the most influential
anthropologist of our time, but his influence extended far beyond
his field to encompass all facets of contemporary life. Nowhere
were his gifts for directness, humor, and steady revelation more
evident than in the pages of the "New York Review of Books," where
for nearly four decades he shared his acute vision of the world in
all its peculiarity. This book brings together the finest of
Geertz's review essays from the "New York Review" along with a
representative selection of later pieces written at the height of
his powers, some that first appeared in periodicals such as
"Dissent," others never before published.
This collection exemplifies Geertz's extraordinary range of
concerns, beginning with his first essay for the "Review" in 1967,
in which he reviews, with muffled hilarity, the anthropologist
Bronislaw Malinowski. This book includes Geertz's unflinching
meditations on Western academia's encounters with the non-Western
world, and on the shifting and clashing places of societies in the
world generally. Geertz writes eloquently and arrestingly about
such major figures as Gandhi, Foucault, and Genet, and on topics as
varied as Islam, globalization, feminism, and the failings of
nationalism.
"Life among the Anthros and Other Essays" demonstrates Geertz's
uncommon wisdom and consistently keen and hopeful humor, confirming
his status as one of our most important and enduring public
intellectuals.
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