Interpreting Clifford Geertz: Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Clifford Geertz....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Semiotics and Thick Description (Barthes and Geertz)....Pages 9-16
The Balinese Cockfight Decoded: Reflections on Geertz and Structuralism....Pages 17-32
On Not Doing Systems....Pages 33-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Geertzian Irony....Pages 45-54
Clifford Geertz and the Strong Program: The Human Sciences and Cultural Sociology....Pages 55-64
Maximal Interpretation in Clifford Geertz and the Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Toward a New Epistemology....Pages 65-76
Thick Description as a Cosmopolitan Practice: A Pragmatic Reading....Pages 77-91
“Malarial and Diffident”: The Vision of Clifford Geertz....Pages 93-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Thick Description, Thin History: Did Historians Always Understand Clifford Geertz?....Pages 105-119
Scientific Cultures....Pages 121-129
Geertz’S Legacy Beyond the Modes of Cultural Analysis of His Time: Speculative Notes and Queries in Remembrance....Pages 131-143
“To Locate in the Tenor of Their Setting the Sources of Their Spell”: Clifford Geertz and the “Strong” Program in Cultural Sociology....Pages 145-166
Ritual, Power, and Style: The Implications of Negara For the Sociology of Power....Pages 167-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Clifford Geertz as a Cultural System....Pages 181-196
On Clifford Geertz: Field Notes from the Classroom....Pages 197-201
Afterword: The Geertz Effect....Pages 203-209
Back Matter....Pages 211-216