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Copyright Copyright Epigraph Introduction PART I Chapter 1/ Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought Chapter 2/ Found in Translation: On the Social History of the Moral Imagination Chapter 3/ “From the Native’s Point of View”: On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding PART II Chapter 4/ Common Sense as a Cultural System Chapter 5/ Art as a Cultural System Chapter 6/ Centers, Kings, and Charisma: Reflections on the Symbolics of Power Chapter 7/ The Way We Think Now: Toward an Ethnography of Modern Thought PART III Chapter 8/ Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective Footnotes Acknowledgments Index About the Author Also by Clifford Geertz About the Publisher

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First published by Basic Books, Inc., New York 1983

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Epigraph Epigraph Introduction PART I Chapter 1/ Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought Chapter 2/ Found in Translation: On the Social History of the Moral Imagination Chapter 3/ “From the Native’s Point of View”: On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding PART II Chapter 4/ Common Sense as a Cultural System Chapter 5/ Art as a Cultural System Chapter 6/ Centers, Kings, and Charisma: Reflections on the Symbolics of Power Chapter 7/ The Way We Think Now: Toward an Ethnography of Modern Thought PART III Chapter 8/ Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective Footnotes Acknowledgments Index About the Author Also by Clifford Geertz About the Publisher

“Je demande dans quel genre est cette pièce? Dans le genre comique? il n’y a pas le mot pour rire. Dans le genre tragique? la terreur, la commisération et les autres grandes passions n’y sont point excitées. Cependant il y a de l’intérêt; et il y en aura, sans ridicule que fasse rire, sans danger que fasse frémir, dans toute composition dramatique où le sujet sera important, où le poète prendra le ton que nous avons dans les affaires sérieuses, et où l’action s’avancera par le perplexité et par les embarras. Or, il me semble que ces actions étant les plus communes de la vie, le genre que les aura pour objet doit être le plus utile et le plus étendu. J’appellerai ce genre le genre sérieux .”

Diderot, Théâtre

Contents

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Copyright Copyright Copyright Epigraph Introduction PART I Chapter 1/ Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought Chapter 2/ Found in Translation: On the Social History of the Moral Imagination Chapter 3/ “From the Native’s Point of View”: On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding PART II Chapter 4/ Common Sense as a Cultural System Chapter 5/ Art as a Cultural System Chapter 6/ Centers, Kings, and Charisma: Reflections on the Symbolics of Power Chapter 7/ The Way We Think Now: Toward an Ethnography of Modern Thought PART III Chapter 8/ Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective Footnotes Acknowledgments Index About the Author Also by Clifford Geertz About the Publisher William the 4th A division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF Published by Fontana Press 1993 www.harpercollins.co.uk First published by Basic Books, Inc., New York 1983 Copyright © Basic Books, Inc. 1983 Clifford Geertz asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks HarperCollins Publishers has made every reasonable effort to ansure that any picture content or written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication Source ISBN: 9780006862642 Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2016 ISBN: 9780008219451 Version: 2016-09-08

Epigraph Epigraph Epigraph Introduction PART I Chapter 1/ Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought Chapter 2/ Found in Translation: On the Social History of the Moral Imagination Chapter 3/ “From the Native’s Point of View”: On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding PART II Chapter 4/ Common Sense as a Cultural System Chapter 5/ Art as a Cultural System Chapter 6/ Centers, Kings, and Charisma: Reflections on the Symbolics of Power Chapter 7/ The Way We Think Now: Toward an Ethnography of Modern Thought PART III Chapter 8/ Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective Footnotes Acknowledgments Index About the Author Also by Clifford Geertz About the Publisher “Je demande dans quel genre est cette pièce? Dans le genre comique? il n’y a pas le mot pour rire. Dans le genre tragique? la terreur, la commisération et les autres grandes passions n’y sont point excitées. Cependant il y a de l’intérêt; et il y en aura, sans ridicule que fasse rire, sans danger que fasse frémir, dans toute composition dramatique où le sujet sera important, où le poète prendra le ton que nous avons dans les affaires sérieuses, et où l’action s’avancera par le perplexité et par les embarras. Or, il me semble que ces actions étant les plus communes de la vie, le genre que les aura pour objet doit être le plus utile et le plus étendu. J’appellerai ce genre le genre sérieux .” Diderot, Théâtre

Introduction

PART I

Chapter 1/ Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought

Chapter 2/ Found in Translation: On the Social History of the Moral Imagination

Chapter 3/ “From the Native’s Point of View”: On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding

PART II

Chapter 4/ Common Sense as a Cultural System

Chapter 5/ Art as a Cultural System

Chapter 6/ Centers, Kings, and Charisma: Reflections on the Symbolics of Power

Chapter 7/ The Way We Think Now: Toward an Ethnography of Modern Thought

PART III

Chapter 8/ Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective

Footnotes

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Author

Also by Clifford Geertz

About the Publisher

Introduction

When, a decade ago, I collected a number of my essays and rereleased them under the title, half genuflection, half talisman, The Interpretation of Cultures , I thought I was summing things up; saying, as I said there, what it was I had been saying. But, as a matter of fact, I was imposing upon myself a charge. In anthropology, too, it so turns out, he who says A must say B, and I have spent much of my time since trying to say it. The essays below are the result; but I am now altogether aware how much closer they stand to the origins of a thought-line than they do to the outcomes of it.