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(Paperback)

By: Clifford Geertz

ISBN: 9780691007786
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 1981
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Analyzes the social organization of Bali before it was colonized by the Dutch in 1906. This book finds that the nineteenth-century Balinese state defied easy conceptualization by the familiar models of political theory and the standard Western approaches to understanding politics.


(Paperback)

By: Clifford Geertz

ISBN: 9780691089560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Offers insightful discussions of concepts such as nation, identity, country, and self, with a reminder that like symbols in general, their meanings are not categorically fixed but grow and change through time and place. This book treats the reader to an analysis of the American intellectual climate by someone who did much to shape it.


(Paperback)

By: Clifford Geertz

ISBN: 9780006862642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1993
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Clifford Geertz

ISBN: 9780006862604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1993
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This is a collection of essays which attempt to push forward a particular view of what culture is, what role it plays in social life and how it ought to be properly studied. What emerges is this book - a treatise in cultural theory developed through a series of concrete analyses.


(Hardback)

By: Clifford Geertz

ISBN: 9780837184319
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1975
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Clifford Geertz

ISBN: 9780691156255
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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