Ethnographica Moralia
Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology
E Marcus editor Neni Panourgia editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Fordham University Press
Published:15th Jun '08
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Clifford Geertz, in his 1973 Interpretation of Cultures, brought about an epistemological revolution unprecedented since Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism. In place of Lévi-Strauss’s deep structures, Geertz placed “deep meanings” and “thick descriptions,” in a synthesis of the American tradition of cultural anthropology and new qualitative approaches in the humanities. He powerfully synthesized and gave the heart of anthropology’s tradition a new and enriched conceptual language that came to be known as “interpretive anthropology” and that placed meaning over form in the center of social analysis. This book maps the circuits of cross fertilizations among disciplines in the humanities and social sciences that have developed from Geertz’s “interpretive turn.”
Panourgia and Marcus bring together anthropologists working in various parts of the world (Greece, Bali, Taiwan, the United States) with classicists, historians, and scholars in cultural studies. The volume takes into account global realities such as 9/11 and the opening of the Cypriot Green Line and explores the different ways in which Geertz’s anthropology has shaped the pedagogy of their disciplines and enabled discussions among them. Focusing on place and time, locations and temporalities, the essays in this volume interrogate the fixity of interpretation and open new spaces of inquiry. The volume addresses a wide audience from the humanities and the social sciences—anyone interested in the development of a new humanism that will relocate the human as a subject of social action.
"In this important new book, Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology, editors Neni Panourgia and George E. Marcus have assembled an impressive array of chapters that map the crisscrossing circuits of interpretative inquiry that have followed from Clifford Geertz's (and Marcus's) original arguments." -American Ethnologist "Whether self-reflexive, self-critical or engaged in radical refashioning, the strength of the discipline as it reframes itself through this beautiful volume is luminously evident." -- -Gil Anidjar Columbia University "Essays by American, Greek, and other scholars who draw on the theories of Clifford Geertz." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "A strong, timely and coherent collection ... a clarion-call for the ongoing relevance of interpretive anthropology to the discipline." -- -David Sutton Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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288 pages