Available light: anthropological reflections on philosophical topics.(Review)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | March 1, 2001| | Copyright

GEERTZ, CLIFFORD. Available light: anthropological reflections on philosophical topics. xvi, 271 pp., bibliogr. Princeton: Univ. Press, 2000. [pound]15.95

This book is a collection of eleven essays, plus a Preface, penned by Clifford Geertz between 1968 and 1999. Together, he explains, they amount to him contriving his own fable -- as he grows stiff and uncited -- before the necrologists get at him.

To read Available light is to appreciate the extent to which, as Geertz himself admits, his 'interpretation of cultures' is an elaboration on Wittgensteinian ...

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