...G. W. Bowersock; Jeffrey M. Perl This response to two academic conferences—“Local Knowledge and Microidentities,” held in England in 2004, and “Patrie d’origine et patries électives,” held in France in 2009—argues that “the idea of the local can only arise from a supralocal perspective” and, thus...

...G. W. Bowersock Whitmarsh Tim , ed., Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 ), 228 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas J. Heffernan, The Passion of Perpetua...

... caught up with its most rev- olutionary insights.” More, it is “the mother tongue of our modernity.” Copjec Common Knowledge 9:3 Copyright 2003 by Duke University Press...

... the globalization of yoga as we know it today. This article concludes by suggesting that microhistorical work on the activities of translators may aid in understanding the part that local knowledge can play in our global future. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 xenophilia xenophobia yoga translation...

...Richard Rorty Abstract Among Rorty's most admired essays, and probably his most autobiographical, “Trotsky and the Wild Orchids” made its first appearance as a column in Common Knowledge during the journal's inaugural year. Here it is reprinted, thirty years later, in a symposium called “Whatever...

...Paul Fenton Five illustrations of exceptional instances of Muslim philo-Semitism are presented in this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia. The first appears in a responsum of the fourteenth-century Spanish rabbi Isaac Ben Sheshet dealing with the Muslim admission of Jewish...

...Helen Verran This essay is one of three published in response to Casper Bruun Jensen's article “Experiments in Good Faith and Hopefulness: Toward a Postcritical Social Science” ( Common Knowledge 20, no. 2 [Spring 2014]: 337 – 62), which concerns the “postcritical” work of Helen Verran, Richard...

...Yaakov A. Mascetti Contextualist scholars working on the rhetoric of corporeal presence in seventeenth-century English religious lyrics have naturally focused their attention on sacramental discourse of the Reformation era. As part of the Common Knowledge symposium on the future of contextualism...

...- sophical ground could be found to stand on while wondering it. Common Knowledge has its own modest place in this story. The title of this journal was intended to express unease with the term or slogan “local knowledge,” made famous by Geertz, a member of CK’s founding...

...- sophical ground could be found to stand on while wondering it. Common Knowledge has its own modest place in this story. The title of this journal was intended to express unease with the term or slogan “local knowledge,” made famous by Geertz, a member of CK’s founding...

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... is also the editor of Decolonization: A Reader. Clifford Geertz’s books—which include The Interpretation of Cultures, Works and Lives, Local Knowledge, After the Fact, Available Light, Islam Observed, Negara, The Religion of Java, and Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society—have received the National...

... metaphors employed by social science in the past century was “blurred genres,” introduced in the opening essay of Clifford Geertz’s 1983 book Local Knowledge.1 Arguing against the rigid methodological and institutional segregation of the disciplines, he urged his...

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