Clifford Geertz: Culture Custom and Ethics

by Fred Inglis

Book Overview

This is the first full-scale study of the work of Clifford Geertz, who is one of the best-known anthropologists in the world today. In a lively and accessible introduction to his work, Fred Inglis situates Geertz's thought in the context of his life and times, reviewing its forty-year range.


The book begins with a chapter-long biography, and places Geertz in the anthropological tradition from which he broke so decisively. This break...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745621589
• ISBN13: 9780745621586
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"