Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author - Softcover

Geertz, Clifford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745607594 ISBN 13: 9780745607597

Publisher: Polity, 1989

Synopsis

This major work, now available in paperback, by one of the worlda s leading anthropologists discusses the style, imagery and metaphor of the great anthropologists, thereby developing Geertza s claim that doing good anthropology is like writing good literature.

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Review:

"Americaa s most renowned cultural anthropologist ... analyses the literary forms of several anthropological notables -- Bronislaw Malinowski, Ruth Benedict, Claude Levi--Strauss, E. E. Evans--Pritchard, and others ... The appreciation of Geertza s brilliant writing is much like the appreciation of a brilliant metaphor." New York Times Book Review . "The racy colloquialisms, the quick--fire prose, sharp glancing allusions, aphorism and tropes of 'Works and Livesa force the reader on at such a brisk pace that, for some, reading it may seem like watching a speeded--up sequence of an old film ... Those who can be expected to take this book in their stride will find it a lively and original critical comparison of the work of four remarkable anthropologists." Times Literary Supplement . "Geertz is a brilliant writer -- obviously, he is also a brilliant thinker -- endlessly witty and quotable." Boston Globe .

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0745607594
• ISBN 13: 9780745607597
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168