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The majority of the essays are, in fact, empirВ ical studies rather than theoretical disquisitions, for I grow uncomfortВ able when I get too far away from the immediacies of social life. I have faced up to the irst of these decisions by including in this collection only those of my essays which bear, directly and explicitly, on the concept of culture. To try to ind the iure in the carpet of one's writings can be as chilling as trying to ind it in one's life to weave, post facto, a igure in -'this is what I meant to say' -is an inВ tense temptation. All of us who write social science journal pieces have a nonook in us, and more and more of us are publishing them all of us imagine that anything our past self has done our present self could do better, and stand ready to perpetrate improvements upon our own work we would never stand for from any editor. When an anthroologist, urged on by an attentive publisher, begins to gather together certain of his essays for a kind of retrospective exhibiВ tion of what he has been doing, or trying to do, over the iteen-year peВ riod since his release from graduate school, he is faced by two tearing decisions: what to include, and how reverently to treat what is included. Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese ExampleД§1 'Internal Conversion' in Contemporary BaliД©/ After the Revolution: The Fate of Nationalism in the New StatesД¬hapter 10/ The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States Chapter 111 The Politics of MeaningД¬hapter 12/ Politics Past, Politics Present: Some Notes on the Uses of Anthropology in Understanding the New StatesД¬hapter 13/ The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude evi-Strauss Chapter 14/ Person, Time, nd Conduct in Bali - Chapter 15/ Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockight Thick Description: Toward an InterpretiveД®thos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols

Library of Congress Catalog Card Numer: 73-81196 SBN: 46503425-X THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES SELECTED ESSAYSД¬liford Geertz Bsic Books, Inc., Puhlishers NEW

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