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Clifford Geertz in Morocco (Paperback)
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Between 1963 and 1986, eminent American anthropologists Clifford
and Hildred Geertz - together and alone - conducted ethnographic
fieldwork for varying periods in Sefrou, a town situated in
north-central Morocco, south of Fez. This book considers Geertz's
contributions to sociocultural theory and symbolic anthropology.
Clifford Geertz made an immense impact on the American academy: his
interpretative and symbolic approaches reoriented anthropology
analytically away from classic social science presuppositions,
while his publications profoundly influenced both North American
and Maghribi researchers alike. After his death at the age of 80 on
October 30, 2006, scholars from local, national, and international
universities gathered at the University of California, Los Angeles,
to analyze his contributions to sociocultural theory and symbolic
anthropology in relation to Islam; ideas of the sacred; Morocco's
cityscapes (notably Sefrou's bazaar or suq); colonialism and
post-independence economic development; gender, and political
structures at the household and village levels. This book looks
back to a specific era of American anthropology beginning in the
1960s as it unfolded in Morocco; and at the same time, the
contributions examine new lines of enquiry that opened up after key
texts by Geertz were translated into French and introduced to
generations of francophone Maghribi researchers who sustain lively
and inventive meditations on his Morocco writings. This book was
published as a special issue of Journal of North African Studies.
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