On Rereading Clifford Geertz’s The Interpretation of Cultures 50 Years after the Fact
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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/17903Keywords:
culture, hermeneutics, ideology, power, differenceAbstract
The essay offers two readings of Clifford Geertz’s The Interpretation of Cultures, one from the author’s perspective in the 1970s and a later one from her thinking in the present. The present thinking, influenced by post-structuralism, questions the sharp distinction between politics and scholarship that Geertz offers in this work.
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