Full name: Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology

Author: Clifford Geertz Year: 1983 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Anthropology, Non Fiction, Essays Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780465041626 0465041620

In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion volume to The Interpretation of Cultures, this book continues Geertz's exploration of the meaning of culture and the importance of shared cultural symbolism. With a new introduction by the author. Similar books: Totemism by Claude Levi-Strauss Our Kind by Marvin Harris The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea by Annette B. Weiner Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski The Evolution of Human Societies by Allen W. Johnson Cultural Materialism by Marvin Harris Structural Anthropology by Claude Levi-Strauss In Search of the Primitive by Stanley Diamond Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies by Margaret Mead The Savage Mind by Claude Levi-Strauss The Gift by Marcel Mauss The Ritual Process by Victor Turner The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas The Forest of Symbols by Victor Turner Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth Holmes Consuming Grief by Beth A. Conklin Twice Dead by Margaret M. Lock Global Shadows by James Ferguson