Local Knowledge (Basic Books Classics): Geertz, Clifford.
Editions for Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology: 0465041620 (Paperback published in 1985), 8815081224 (Paperback published in 2.
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Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) studied at Harvard University in the 1950s. He was strongly influenced by the writings of philosophers such as Langer, Ryle, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Ricouer, as well as by Weber, adopting various aspects of their thinking as key elements in the construction of his interpretive anthropology (Handler 1991; Tongs 1993).
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Local knowledge: further essays in interpretive anthropology. Read Chapter 3, pp 55-70, From the native's point of view: On the nature of anthropological understanding.
Clifford Geertz is a much travelled American, who is probably the greatest anthropologist of the last 60 or 70 years. He is good at distinguishing between the idea of celebrity and renown. People were renowned partly by virtue of their position, as the monarch was, and partly by virtue of their accomplishments. But celebrity is a different sort of creature when it comes along in the middle of.
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, anthropology was torn apart by questions about its colonial past and the possibility of objective knowledge in the human sciences. “For the next fifteen years or so,” Geertz wrote, “proposals for new directions in anthropological theory and method appeared almost by the month, the one more clamorous than.
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The static oppositions of local versus universal knowledge are challenged by establishing more diversified models to analyse the relationships of heterogeneous knowledges. The study emphasizes the complex articulation of knowledge repertoires by drawing on an ethnographic case study among migrant peasants in southeastern Nicaragua. Knowledge.