Clifford Geertz is one of the foremost figures in the
reconfiguration of the boundary between the social sciences and the
humanities in the second half of the twentieth century. Expanding
the power and complexity of the anthropological concept of culture,
his work is both foundational to, and in critical counterpoint
with, that vast interdisciplinary spectrum of scholarship known
today as "cultural studies." This book brings together seven
leading scholars from four disciplines to take a fresh look at
Geertz's work and to consider the continuing implications of his
work in the contemporary context.
Framed by an important introduction by anthropologist Sherry B.
Ortner, the volume includes contributions by Stephen Greenblatt,
Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr., William H. Sewell, Jr., Natalie Zemon
Davis, George E. Marcus, and Lila Abu-Lughod. The articles cover
such topics as seventeenth-century English ghosts, Jewish merchants
in early capitalism, Egyptian women in the age of television, and
the role of Sherpas in Himalayan mountaineering, as well as such
methodological issues as the place of emotional empathy and
"complicity" in ethnographic fieldwork, and the mutual illumination
of culture and history.
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