...Richard A. Shweder Duke University Press 2007 C O L U M N S THE RESOLUTE IRRESOLUTION OF CLIFFORD GEERTZ Richard A. Shweder Clifford Geertz, arguably the best-known and most influential American anthro...

...Peter Burke Richard A. Shweder and Byron Good, eds., Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 160 pp. Duke University Press 2007 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, Animals in Translation...

...Renato Rosaldo Duke University Press 2007 C O L U M N S GEERTZ’S GIFTS Renato Rosaldo As I write, it is three months since Cliff’s death. I miss him terribly. The evening he and my son, Sam, then six, talked joyously about baseball...

...Caroline Walker Bynum; Clifford Geertz; Sari Nusseibeh; Robert Weisbuch; Israel J. Yuval; Philip Glotzbach; Alick Isaacs; Lawrence Jones; Cason Lynley; Jeffrey M. Perl 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 COLUMNS...

...Clifford Geertz Duke University Press 2005 LITTLE REVIEWS Pascal Khoo Thwe, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 320 pp. This is a classic coming-of-age, my-life...

...Clifford Geertz; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Thwe Pascal Khoo , From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey ( New York : HarperCollins , 2002 ), 320 pp. ...

...Clifford Geertz; Jeffrey M. Perl At the founding editor’s invitation in 1991–92, the members of the editorial board and the department editors of Common Knowledge wrote individual and small-group calls for papers to be published in the inaugural issue of Spring 1992 and the succeeding issue, Fall...

...Clifford Geertz L I T T L E R E V I E W S Reviel Netz, Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004), 267 pp. “What is Modernity?” The endless debates have been unspeakably stale for a very long time...

...Clifford Geertz Barry Allen, Knowledge and Civilization , with a foreword by Richard Rorty (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2004), 342 pp. Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure, and Punishment...

...Clifford Geertz Duke University Press 2002 CK 8.3-10 Reviews 7/14/02 3:13 PM Page 548 LITTLE REVIEWS Tzvetan Todorov, Life in Common, trans. Katherine Golsan and Lucy Golsan (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001), 174 pp...

...Clifford Geertz Duke University Press 2002 LITTLE REVIEWS Aris Fioretos, The Gray Book (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999), 152 pp. The absence-of-color gray and the semiotics of the absence-of-quantity zero are the lead...

...Clifford Geertz John H. Zammito, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 576 pp. Duke University Press 2003 LITTLE REVIEWS John H. Zammito, Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology (Chicago: University of Chicago...

...Ardis Butterfield This is the final part of a three-part essay on fuzziness in medieval literary language. Each part corresponds broadly to Clifford Geertz's trifold instances of blur as involving “face-to-face interaction” (“life as game”), “collective intensities” (“life as stage...

...Martin Jay; Ermanno Bencivenga; Peter Burke; Christopher P. Jones; Ardis Butterfield; Mercedes García-Arenal; Avinoam Rosenak; Francis X. Clooney, SJ Ever since Clifford Geertz urged the “blurring of genres” in the social sciences, many scholars have considered the crossing of disciplinary...

...Ardis Butterfield Vernacular language use in England throughout the later Middle Ages was a complex negotiation between English and French; that is, between the languages of English and French and the political identities of two peoples engaged in a long war. Clifford Geertz's famous analysis...

...Ardis Butterfield This article on fuzziness in medieval language use is the second part of a three-part contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur.” Each part corresponds broadly to Clifford Geertz's trifold instances of blur as involving “face-to-face...

... describes objects as fuzzy “half-entities”; Clifford Geertz's essay “Blurred Genres” (1980), which advises social scientists that being “taxonomically upstanding” is futile; and Lofti Zadeh's article “The Concept of a Linguistic Variable and Its Application to Approximate Reasoning” (1975), which abandons...

...Stephen Greenblatt Duke University Press 2007 C O L U M N S THE CROWD PARTS Stephen Greenblatt Clifford Geertz told me a story once, many years ago, that has stayed with me. He was doing fieldwork in Bali...

...Gianni Vattimo Duke University Press 2007 Translated by Robert Valgenti A “DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM”? Symposium in Response to Cardinal Ratzinger’s Last Homily In memory of Clifford Geertz Gianni Vattimo, Julia...

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