Local Knowledge (Essays on Interpretive Anthropology)

Author: (American) Clifford Geertz, translated by Wang Hailong and Zhang Jiashuan
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Clifford Geertz is a renowned American cultural anthropologist. His collected essays, Local Knowledge, have had a profound influence in Western cultural theory circles, regarded as a classic and theoretical model. He is also known as the master of interpretive anthropology and a pioneer, an epoch-making theoretical master. The title Local Knowledge aims to explore the specificity, penetrability, and interpretive nature of cognition. As a work from Geertz's mature period, this collection of essays largely gathers articles that address three aspects of his propositions: the first is to select propositions with strong symbolic significance and relatively deep cultural cognitive implications; the second is to choose propositions with deep hierarchical layers to demonstrate the strengths of interpretive analysis and argumentation; the third is to reflect his theoretical elaboration and further derivation of his prized strength—in-depth description.