This book brings together the finest of Geertz's review essays from the New York Review along with a representative selection of later pieces written at the height of his powers, some that first appeared in periodicals such as Dissent, ...
Author: Clifford Geertz
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400834546
Category: Social Science
Page: 280
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Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was perhaps the most influential anthropologist of our time, but his influence extended far beyond his field to encompass all facets of contemporary life. Nowhere were his gifts for directness, humor, and steady revelation more evident than in the pages of the New York Review of Books, where for nearly four decades he shared his acute vision of the world in all its peculiarity. This book brings together the finest of Geertz's review essays from the New York Review along with a representative selection of later pieces written at the height of his powers, some that first appeared in periodicals such as Dissent, others never before published. This collection exemplifies Geertz's extraordinary range of concerns, beginning with his first essay for the Review in 1967, in which he reviews, with muffled hilarity, the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. This book includes Geertz's unflinching meditations on Western academia's encounters with the non-Western world, and on the shifting and clashing places of societies in the world generally. Geertz writes eloquently and arrestingly about such major figures as Gandhi, Foucault, and Genet, and on topics as varied as Islam, globalization, feminism, and the failings of nationalism. Life among the Anthros and Other Essays demonstrates Geertz's uncommon wisdom and consistently keen and hopeful humor, confirming his status as one of our most important and enduring public intellectuals.
So, we see the view further afield: The Kingdom of Life, Between the Gate and
the Wall, Freedom in our Lifetime, Catastrophe, Water Pipes and Pig Pens, The
Landscape of Fear: Scattered ... Life Among the Anthros and Other Essays.
Author: Dale Rominger
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456802461
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 356
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In Notes from 39,000 Feet Dale Rominger has put together a collection of poignant observations from his experiences around the world. With extraordinary clarity, he describes both everyday moments and historical events, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first elections in South Africa. In describing personal encounters in places as far afield as Reykjavik and Luanda and reflecting on social and political events from Harare to Seoul, Rominger presents an array of details which most of us would miss and interprets them in such a way that they haunt us long after we finish reading. Perhaps this is the true value of his work; it is not just a fascinating read, it challenges us to question. In the first section of the book, Making Meaning, the Notes are presented in chronological order, beginning in Reykjavik in 1986, passing through places such as Harare, Varanasi, Gaza City, Seoul, Istanbul, Prague, San Salvador and Kingston, and ending in London in 2010. Some Notes are transcriptions of presentations and lectures given at international gatherings and events. Some are journalistic reflections and some sermon-like meditations. Some are directly associated with church work and others are not. Others are reflections on books he came across on his travels. While there is no central theme, there is a background hum that is hard to miss, a hum that hints at ethical, philosophical, theological points of view that make up a system of meaning thoughts, feelings, beliefs, observations, understandings, all of which combine to reveal a way of seeing the world and how we choose to live within it. The last section of the book, Making Believe, is comprised of two fictitious short stories. The first, The Poetry of Being Human, was written after Romingers return from Central America. The second, Martha Goes to Paris, is a response to George W. Bushs rightwing Christian fundamentalist America. While the first places an intense love story within the social and political upheaval, and often tragedy, of Central America in the 1980s, the second is, in Romingers words, An absurd story for an absurd time. At its heart Notes is both an observation of the world we live in and a personal journey. Rominger does not pull his punches and behind almost every word there is a shadow of anger at the injustices he has witnessed in his travels. But the book is also a personal account of the effect such a life can have on a person. He ends the chapter Swanning Around the World or Passing Through the International Non-Places of Planet Earth with these words: Either none of us is special or we are all special. But the point is, the universe, global economics, global warming, international injustice, contemporary slave trade, sex trafficking, disease, poverty, HIV/AIDS, tsunamis, hurricanes, droughts and warlords don't give a damn about us. If God does, he/she/it keeps it a good secret. [I have a] friend in Washington D.C. who...travelled for the church more than I ever have and has been around the world a couple more times than I have. I asked him once if he were happy. He said that he wasnt. That he'd seen too much and knew too much. And like me, he couldnt forget a damn thing. And yet this chapter, as well as many others, is also filled with the laughter and absurdity of life. A quick glance as the bibliography at the end of the book gives the reader some sense of its mood and tone. Rominger cites authors from Woody Allen to Don DeLillo, Chung Hyun Kyung to Paul Ricoeur, Henri Nouwen to Tony Judt. Notes from 39,000 Feet is a tribute to the worlds people in their profound striving for justice and the joy they embrace, whatever the circumstances. It is a testament to the human spirit.
Fox, Karen V. (1996) “Silent Voices: A Subversive Reading of Child Abuse,” in
Ellis, Carolyn, and Arthur P. Bochner (eds.) ... Geertz, Clifford (2012) Life Among the Anthros and Other Essays, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
Author: F. Bouchetoux
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781137404176
Category: Social Science
Page: 121
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A call for new methods for anthropology, this book explores the nature of anthropological knowledge and the conditions of integration and communication with people. Starting with an analysis of anthropologists' guilt, Fan addresses issues of reflexivity, reciprocity, and respect, then builds on this to evaluate how researchers generate knowledge.
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Deforming the Teeth - Deforming the Feet - EradJECTS ... The Poetry in Words - Other Essays . ... The Physical Basis of Life - Scientific Schoolmaster ' s Use of
Words .
Those authors who believe that God exists view man's moral responsibilities in a
much different light . Moral respectibility not ... Several authors , however , believe
the after - life is simply a continuation of this life through the processes of
reincarnation or rejuvenation . ... In Social Anthropology and Other Essays . The
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civilized his existence as man , may have ... one another wherever they meet ,
and contradictory opinions as to the moral state they meet over the whole area of anthro- of savages . ... In the present two essays , design- stories are told to prove
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Am.Anthro. V62 :3l*-57. Izzett, Alison. 1961. "Family Life Among the Yoruba in
Lagos, Nigeria". Social Change in Modem Africa. ... Man V7:283-295. Nadel, S.F.
1952. "Witchcraft in Four African Societies: An Essay in Comparison". Am. Anthro.
Author: Modern Language Association of America. Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession
Author: Edward Evan Evans-PritchardPublish On: 1962
In the first sense history is part of the conscious tradition of a people and is
operative in their social life . It is the collective representation of events as 3
distinct from events themselves . This is what the social anthros pologist calls
myth .
Author: Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Publisher:
ISBN: UCSC:32106016501204
Category: Anthropology
Page: 354
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Combining Social anthropology and Essays in social anthropology, in one volume.
Am . Anthro . V62 : 34 - 57 . Izzett , Alison . 1961 . " Family Life Among the Yoruba in Lagos , Nigeria " . Social Change in ... Witchcraft in Four African Societies : An Essay in Comparison " . Am . Anthro . V54 : 18 - 29 . Netting , Robert , 1969 .
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ISBN: IND:30000113526978
Category: Women
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Vols. 1-3 contain college syllabi and reading lists.
the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years , and
let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth .
... God formed man of dust from the ground , and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life ; and man became a living being . ... Perhaps I deserved to be
publicly rebuked for my pride , for flaunting my little knowledge of anthro - pology
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