Available light : anthropological reflections on philosophical topics / Clifford Geertz
2000, 2nd edition. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #424381
ISBN: 0691049742
Physical description; xvi, 271 pages. Notes; Articles previously published chiefly 1983-1999. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents; Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. Passage and Accident: A Life of Learning; II. Thinking as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of Anthropological Fieldwork in the New States; III. Anti Anti-Relativism; IV. The Uses of Diversity; V. The State of the Art; VI. The Strange Estrangement: Charles Taylor and the Natural Sciences; VII. The Legacy of Thomas Kuhn: The Right Text at the Right Time; VIII. The Pinch of Destiny: Religion as Experience, Meaning, Identity, Power; IX. Imbalancing Act: Jerome Bruner's Cultural Psychology; X. Culture, Mind, Brain / Brain, Mind, Culture. Subjects; Ethnology. Philosophy. Cultural pluralism. Cultural Diversity.
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