Works and Lives (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Clifford Geertz
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Ethnology, literary criticism, and philosophy
- Principal Characters: Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edward Evans-Pritchard, Bronisł Malinowski, Ruth Benedict
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Writing, Human race, Human behavior, Anthropology or anthropologists, Ethnology, Literary criticism
In this book, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Clifford Geertz is reviewing not so much the works as the lives of four major ethnographers of a previous generation: Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edward Evans-Pritchard, Bronisław Malinowski, and Ruth Benedict. The structure of his book clearly shows Geertz's matter-of-fact approach: introduction, main body of four chapters, each dedicated to one of his four major ethnographers, and conclusion. Even the chapter titles and subtitles look like an outline, reflecting the contents and guiding the reader to the center...
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