Clifford Geertz purveyor of small things

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Clifford Geertz purveyor of small things [1]

In a 1995 article in The New Statesman, the anthropologist Jonathan Benthall wrote, "Clifford Geertz disappoints some colleagues because he comes up with no overarching theories.' Benthall was right or at least partly so: Geertz deliberately chose not to expound universal theories, seeking instead to find meaning in small-scale observations of simple human interaction

Publication Date:

29/11/2006

Source: Down to Earth [2]

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History Of Science [3], History [4], Indonesia [5]

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