A formative ethnography of the relationship between markets and social life, back in print. Originally published in 1979, Clifford Geertz’s essay on the Moroccan bazaar is a classic ethnographic account of the interplay of economic, social, and religious lives in the bustle of transaction. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the Middle Atlas town of Sefrou, Geertz explores how actors from diverse backgrounds assess the worth and meaning of other people’s wares, words, and ways of doing business. He shows how the search for market information, so central to the theorization of markets by economists, is here based on careful appraisals of social relations, embedded in understandings of the broader institutional environment of the market town and its hinterlands. With a richness of insights procured for generations of readers, Geertz’s essay on the sūq is a model of and for the craft of ethnographic theory. Long out of print, it is republished here in a stand-alone edition introduced by Lawrence Rosen.
Clifford Geertz Pořadí knih
Tento autor se proslavil svými hlubokými antropologickými studiemi. Jeho práce se zaměřuje na interpretaci kultur a lidského chování. Obzvláště se věnoval detailnímu popisu a analýze sociálních jevů.






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- 2014
Passagen Forum: Welt in Stücken
Kultur und Politik am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts
- 91 stránek
- 4 hodiny čtení
„. die vielleicht folgenreichste Entwicklung besteht in der Verwandlung der Welt in jenes allgegenwärtige Flickwerk, mit dem wir jetzt so plötzlich konfrontiert sind.“ Technologien und Marktmechanismen unterwerfen heute die Vielfalt der Kulturen einheitlichen Standards und lassen sie zu einer globalen Zivilisation zusammenwachsen. Mit dieser Globalisierung geht eine zunehmende Fragmentierung einher, die spätestens seit 1989 auch auf Europa übergesprungen ist. Das Ende der Blöcke hat zentrifugale Kräfte und Wanderungsströme freigesetzt, denen der klassische Rahmen des Nationalstaates immer weniger standzuhalten vermag; gleichzeitig scheint die europäische Integration ins Stocken zu geraten. Sind wir im Begriff, uns dem kulturellen Patchwork und den fraktalen Gesellschaften Asiens oder Afrikas anzuverwandeln? Droht das Programm des westlichen Liberalismus mit seinem Anspruch auf Universalität und Konsens zu scheitern?
- 2000
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.
- 1995
After the Fact Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist
- 208 stránek
- 8 hodin čtení
In looking back on four decades of anthropology in the field, Clifford Geertz creates a personal history that is also a retrospective reflection on developments in the human sciences amid political, social, and cultural changes in the world.
- 1993
This sequel to The Interpretation of Cultures is a collection of essays which reject large abstractions, going beyond the mere translation of one culture into another, and looks at the underlying, compartmentalized reality.
- 1990
Aus dem Amerikanischen v. Pfeiffer, Martin ( Fischer Wissenschaft). 156 S.
- 1983
Die in diesem Band enthaltenen Untersuchungen fragen alle, obgleich auf unterschiedliche thematische Schwerpunkte gerichtet, nach dem Wesen von Kultur, ihrer Rolle im sozialen Leben und ihrer adäquaten Untersuchung.
- 1975
Kinship in Bali
- 213 stránek
- 8 hodin čtení
This work constitutes the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of "kinship system." Hildred and Clifford Geertz's findings challenge the prevailing anthropological notion of a kinship system as an autonomous set of institutionalized social relationships. Their research in Bali suggests that kinship cannot be studied in isolation but must be perceived as a symbolic subsystem governed by ideas and beliefs unique to each culture.
- 1973
Interpretace kultur. Vybrané eseje
- 565 stránek
- 20 hodin čtení
Soubor esejů amerického antropologa prezentuje interpretativní pojetí kultury. Autor, jenž patří k zakladatelům interpretativní a symbolické teorie kultury, představuje svůj výklad pojetí kultury prostřednictvím souboru esejů, opírajících se o empirické studie sociálního a kulturního života. Teoretické výklady pojmu kultura, vymezení úlohy kulturních a sociálních antropologů dokládá praktickými zkušenostmi z antropologických výzkumů různých etnik a národů. Geertzova koncepce teorie kultury ze 70. let patří k jednomu z významných mezníků v dějinách kulturní a sociální antropologie. Jeho knihu ocení především studenti sociálních věd
- 1971
Islam Observed
- 144 stránek
- 6 hodin čtení
"In four brief chapters," writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, "I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparative analysis of religion and to apply it to a study of the development of a supposedly single creed, Islam, in two quite contrasting civilizations, the Indonesian and the Moroccan." Mr. Geertz begins his argument by outlining the problem conceptually and providing an overview of the two countries. He then traces the evolution of their classical religious styles which, with disparate settings and unique histories, produced strikingly different spiritual climates. So in Morocco, the Islamic conception of life came to mean activism, moralism, and intense individuality, while in Indonesia the same concept emphasized aestheticism, inwardness, and the radical dissolution of personality. In order to assess the significance of these interesting developments, Mr. Geertz sets forth a series of theoretical observations concerning the social role of religion.




