Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology

by George E. Marcus

Clifford Geertz, in his 1973 Interpretation of Cultures, brought about an epistemological revolution unprecedented since Lvi-Strauss's structuralism. In place of Lvi-Strauss's deep structures, Geertz placed deep meanings and thick descriptions, in a synthesis of the American tradition of cultural anthropology and new qualitative approaches in the humanities. He powerfully synthesized and gave the heart of anthropology's tradition a new and enriched...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823228878
• ISBN13: 9780823228874
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"