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Publication date 1988 Note Includes index. ISBN 0804714282 (alk. paper) : 9780804714280 (alk. paper) 0804717478 9780804717472
Clifford Geertz locates the tensions of authorship in the distance between the two scenes of anthropologists' works and lives: "being there" and "being here". As he writes in introduction, "the ability of anthropologists to get us to take what they say seriously has less to do with either a factual look or an air of conceptual elegance than it has with their capacity to convince us that what ...
The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categories—this is magic, that is technology—has long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of writing, putting things to paper, has now and then occurred to those engaged in producing it, consuming it, or both. But the examination of ...
Writing Anthropology. writing anthropology. EDMUND LEACH-Cambridge University. Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. CLIFFORD GEERTZ. Stanford: Stan-. ford University Press, 1988. vi + 157 pp., index. $19.95 (cloth) One of the most celebrated pieces of fictitious ethnography ever written is J. G. Frazer's ac- count of the Priest-King ...
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Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Paperback – 17 Aug. 1989. This major work, now available in paperback, by one of the world's leading anthropologists discusses the style, imagery and metaphor of the great anthropologists, thereby developing Geertz's claim that doing good anthropology is like writing good literature.
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- Clifford Geertz
As exemplars, Geertz analyzes the unique and decidedly different literary approaches of Claude Levi-Strauss, Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Ruth Benedict. Geertz calls upon ethnographers today not only to document their findings but to revitalize their field by paying attention to the crucial role of how they write.
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- Clifford Geertz
