Clifford Geertz: culture, customs and ethics (Key Contemporary Thinkers).(Review)

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

INGLIS, FRED. Clifford Geertz: culture, customs and ethics (Key Contemporary Thinkers). xii, 207 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000. [pound]13.99 (paper), [pound]45.00 (cloth)

Fred Inglis has produced an unabashed hagiography of the life and writings of Clifford Geertz, but with considerable depth of analysis and insight. He captures well both the times (post-World War II optimism in liberal US academia, yet in the grim shadows of the long Cold War) in which Geertz rose to prominence, as well as the essential disciplinary tradition which he so distinctively ...

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