Available light : anthropological reflections on philosophical topics /
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| Author / Creator: | Geertz, Clifford. |
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| Imprint: | Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2000. |
| Description: | xvi, 271 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 3 is hardbound and has original dust jacket; copy 4 is a paperback. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4236958 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- I.. Passage and Accident: A Life of Learning
- Overture
- The Bubble
- Changing the Subject
- Waiting Time
- 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
- Waddling In
- Culture War
- Deep Hanging Out
- History and Anthropology
- "Local Knowledge" and Its Limits
- 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
- XI.. The World in Pieces: Culture and Politics at the End of the Century
- The World in Pieces
- What Is a Country if It Is Not a Nation?
- What Is a Culture if It Is Not a Consensus?
- Index