Book information:

Clifford Geertz: Local Knowledge (1983)
(= HyperGeertz-83Beng1).

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• HyperGeertz-Abstract.

Table of contents

(0) "Introduction", pp. 3-16 (= new contribution: 83Aeng1).
(1) "Blurred Genres: the refiguration of social thought", pp. 19-35 (80Aeng2).
(2) "Found in translation: on the social history of the moral imagination", pp. 36-54 (77Aeng2).
(3) "'From the native's point of view': on the nature of anthropological understanding", pp. 55-70 (74Aeng2).
(4) "Common sense as a cultural system", pp. 73-93 (75Aeng1).
(5) "Art as a cultural system", pp. 94-120 (76Aeng1).
(6) "Centers, kings and charisma: reflections on the symbolics of power", pp. 121-146 (77Aeng3).
(7) "The way we think now: toward an ethnography of modern thought", pp. 147-163 (82Aeng1).
(8) "Local knowledge: fact and law in comparative perspective", pp. 167-234 (= new contribution: 83Aeng2).

Reviews:

• Petersen, Glenn (1983), in: Library Journal,  vol. 108 no. 140 (January 1983), p. 1497

• Lieberson, Jonathan (1984): "Interpreting the interpreter", in: New York Review of books, no. 31 (1984), p. 39-46.

• Catt, Issac E. (1984), in: Literature in Performance, vol. 5 no. 1 (November 1984), pp. 59-60.

• Shankman, Paul (1985): "Gourmet anthropology: the interpretive menu", in: Reviews in anthropology, vol. 12 (1985), pp. 241-248.

• Foster, Stephen William (1985), American Anthropologist, vol. 87 no. 1 (March 1985), pp. 164-165.

• Gurry, Michael G. (1985), in: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 75 no. 2 (June 1985), pp. 291-293
  (online as HyperGeertz-Review(1)).

• Wegener, Charles (1985), in: American Journal of Sociology, vol. 91 no. 1 (July 1985), pp. 164-166.

• Keesing, Roger M. (1985), in: American Ethnologist, vol. 12 no. 3 (August 1985), pp. 554-555.

• Piot, Charles/ Scult, Allen (1985), in: Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 71 no. 3 (August 1985), pp. 390-392.