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Local knowledge : further essays in interpretive anthropology / by Clifford Geertz.

By: Geertz, Clifford.
Publisher: [New York] : Basic Books, c2000Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xi, 244 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0465041620 (pbk.).Subject(s): Ethnology -- Addresses, essays, lecturesDDC classification: 306
Contents:
1. Blurred genres : the refiguration of social thought -- 2. Found in translation : on the social history of the moral imagination -- 3. "From the native's point of view" : on the nature of anthropological understanding -- 4. Common sense as a cultural system -- 5. Art as a cultural system -- 6. Centers, kings, and chrisma : reflections on the symbolics of power -- 7. The way we think now : toward an ethnology of modern thought -- 8. Local knowledge : fact and law in comparative perspective.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Blurred genres : the refiguration of social thought -- 2. Found in translation : on the social history of the moral imagination -- 3. "From the native's point of view" : on the nature of anthropological understanding -- 4. Common sense as a cultural system -- 5. Art as a cultural system -- 6. Centers, kings, and chrisma : reflections on the symbolics of power -- 7. The way we think now : toward an ethnology of modern thought -- 8. Local knowledge : fact and law in comparative perspective.