rowanglass's review
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
A foundational text in interpretive and symbolic anthropology. Geertz, with an expert's eye for detail and a familiarity with a great diversity of ethnographic literature pertaining to cultures as distant and different from each other as any in the world, draws connections between all the essential aspects of culture in the general sense--language, art, social structure, economy, politics--to weave for the reader a tapestry that reveals the interconnectedness that underlies human social life and culture as such.
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