{"product_id":"the-fate-of-culture-geertz-and-beyond-volume-8-paperback","title":"The Fate of Culture: Geertz and Beyond Volume 8 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSherry B. Ortner\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClifford Geertz is one of the foremost figures in the reconfiguration of the boundary between the social sciences and the humanities in the second half of the twentieth century. Expanding the power and complexity of the anthropological concept of culture, his work is both foundational to, and in critical counterpoint with, that vast interdisciplinary spectrum of scholarship known today as \"cultural studies.\" This book brings together seven leading scholars from four disciplines to take a fresh look at Geertz's work, and to consider the continuing implications of his work in the contemporary context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFramed by an important introduction by anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner, the articles cover such topics as seventeenth-century English ghosts, Jewish merchants in early capitalism, Egyptian women in the age of television, and the role of Sherpas in Himalayan mountaineering, as well as such methodological issues as the place of emotional empathy and \"complicity\" in ethnographic fieldwork, and the mutual illumination of culture and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClifford Geertz is one of the foremost figures in the reconfiguration of the boundary between the social sciences and the humanities in the second half of the twentieth century. Expanding the power and complexity of the anthropological concept of culture, his work is both foundational to, and in critical counterpoint with, that vast interdisciplinary spectrum of scholarship known today as \"cultural studies.\" This book brings together seven leading scholars from four disciplines to take a fresh look at Geertz's work and to consider the continuing implications of his work in the contemporary context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFramed by an important introduction by anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner, the volume includes contributions by Stephen Greenblatt, Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr., William H. Sewell, Jr., Natalie Zemon Davis, George E. Marcus, and Lila Abu-Lughod. The articles cover such topics as seventeenth-century English ghosts, Jewish merchants in early capitalism, Egyptian women in the age of television, and the role of Sherpas in Himalayan mountaineering, as well as such methodological issues as the place of emotional empathy and \"complicity\" in ethnographic fieldwork, and the mutual illumination of culture and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSherry B. Ortner\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and is currently completing her third book on the Sherpas of Nepal, \u003ci\u003eLife and Death on Mount Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9.98 x 7.09 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 29, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133492859015,"sku":"9780520216013","price":53.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/8091acff69d643cc53531f78b1c335b2.webp?v=1732634743","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-fate-of-culture-geertz-and-beyond-volume-8-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}