Anthropologists as symbols: Geertz
Keywords:
Clifford Geertz,
anthropology of anthropology,
interpretations,
anthropological theories,
history of anthropology,
symbols
Abstract
Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was certainly one of the most influential anthropologists in the last decades of the 20th century, even though some of his former students (like Rabinow in Slyomovics 2010) claim that he was not very accessible as a person, and that sometimes he did not even care for his students. Somewhat paradoxically, Geertz´s influence on anthropology and related disciplines remained notable even after his death. This paper analyzes interest in aspects of his work over the last decade, as an indicator of transforming a personality into a global cultural symbol.
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Bošković, Aleksandar (ur.). 2007. Kliford Gerc. Kultura 118/119. Beograd.
Bozarslan, Hamid. 2005. Ernest Gellner, Clifford Geertz et le Maghreb. Esprit 311:150-159.
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Geertz, Clifford. [Gerc, Kliford]. 1971. Religija kao kulturni system. Prevela Sanja Grahek. Kultura broj 13/14: 24-43.
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Oliveira, Relivaldo Pinho de. 2012. Antropologia e filosofia: estética e experiência em Clifford Geertz e Walter Benjamin. Horizontes antropológicos 18 (37): 209-234.
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Ortner, Sherry (ed.). 1999. The Fate of ʺCulture”: Geertz and Beyond. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Rapport, Nigel. 1996. Thick description. In: David Levinson and Melvin Ember (eds.), Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 4, pp. 1311-1313. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
Rosaldo, Renato. 2007. Geertz’s gifts. Common Knowledge 13 (2/3): 206-210.
Shweder, Richard A. 2007. The resolute irresolution of Clifford Geertz. Common Knowledge 13(2/3): 191-205.
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Slyomovics, Susan (ed.). 2010. Clifford Geertz in Morocco. New York: Routledge.
Spasić, Ivana, i Gordana Gorunović. 2012. “Terenski rad u filozofiji”: Gerc i Burdije kao sagovornici. Sociologija LIV (3): 401-422.
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2016-02-26
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Bošković, A. (2016). Anthropologists as symbols: Geertz. Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, 9(4), 837-848. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v9i4.1
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