The Culture Of Interpretation

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465093564

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The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz Pdf

In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.

Author : Roger Lundin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0802806368

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The Culture of Interpretation by Roger Lundin Pdf

This book offers a broad-ranging account of contemporary American culture, the complex network of symbols, practices, and beliefs at the heart of our society. Lundin explores the historical background of some of our "postmodern" culture's central beliefs and considers their crucial ethical and theological implications.

Author : Abena Dadze-Arthur
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351353182

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An Analysis of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures by Abena Dadze-Arthur Pdf

Clifford Geertz has been called ‘the most original anthropologist of his generation’ – and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and approaches of anthropological interpretation that he outlined in The Interpretation of Cultures. The centrality of interpretative skills to anthropology is uncontested: in a subject that is all about understanding mankind, and which seeks to outline the differences and the common ground that exists between cultures, interpretation is the crucial skillset. For Geertz, however, standard interpretative approaches did not go deep enough, and his life’s work concentrated on deepening and perfecting his subject’s interpretative skills. Geertz is best known for his definition of ‘culture,’ and his theory of ‘thick description,’ an influential technique that depends on fresh interpretative approaches. For Geertz, ‘cultures’ are ‘webs of meaning’ in which everyone is suspended. Understanding culture, therefore, is not so much a matter of going in search of law, but of setting out an interpretative framework for meaning that focuses directly on attempts to define the real meaning of things within a given culture. The best way to do this, for Geertz, is via ‘thick description:’ a way of recording things that explores context and surroundings, and articulates meaning within the web of culture. Ambitious and bold, Geertz’s greatest creation is a method all critical thinkers can learn from.

Author : Cary Nelson,Lawrence Grossberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252014014

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Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture by Cary Nelson,Lawrence Grossberg Pdf

This title provides a picture of the state of Marxist thinking. It aims to provoke a debate that will be of interest to those concerned with the status and development of Marxism and also to theorists in all fields of the human sciences.

Author : Joan H Pittock,Andrew Wear,Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349212729

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Interpretation And Cultural History by Joan H Pittock,Andrew Wear,Anthony Grafton Pdf

Author : Juliette Fritsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135767952

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Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture by Juliette Fritsch Pdf

Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation design and management can help museum visitors learn about art and material culture. The book features a range of papers by leading academics, museum learning professionals, graduate researchers and curators from Europe, the USA and Canada. The papers present diverse new research and practice in the field, and open up debate about the role, design and process of exhibition interpretation in museums, art galleries and historic sites. The authors represent both academics and practitioners, and are affiliated with high quality institutions of broad geographical scope. The result is a strong, consistent representation of current thinking across the theory, methodology and practice of interpretation design for learning in museums.

Author : Larry Beck,Ted T. Cable
Publisher : Sagamore Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106018640026

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Interpretation for the 21st Century by Larry Beck,Ted T. Cable Pdf

This book is uplifting and inspiring as it enhances the reader's understanding of how to compellingly interpret our cultural and natural legacy. The 15 guiding principles set forth in this book will assist anyone who works in parks, forests, wildlife refuges, zoos, museums, historic areas, nature centres, and tourism sites to more effectively, and joyously, conduct their work. This book, updated and in its second edition, has been used internationally and has been translated into Chinese. It serves as inspirational reading for students in environmental education, forestry, conservation, history, communications, outdoor recreation, and park management.

Author : Kevin J. Vanhoozer,Charles A. Anderson,Michael J. Sleasman
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441200495

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Everyday Theology (Cultural Exegesis) by Kevin J. Vanhoozer,Charles A. Anderson,Michael J. Sleasman Pdf

Everyday theology is the reflective and practical task of living each day as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. In other words, theology is not just for Sundays, and it's not just for professional theologians. Everyday Theology teaches all Christians how to get the theological lay of the land. It enables them to become more conscious of the culture they inhabit every day so that they can understand how it affects them and how they can affect it. If theology is the ministry of the Word to the world, everyday theologians need to know something about that world, and Everyday Theology shows them how to understand their culture make an impact on it. Engaging and full of fresh young voices, this book is the first in the new Cultural Exegesis series.

Author : Douglas M. Knudson,Ted T. Cable,Larry Beck
Publisher : Ingram
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015059254659

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Interpretation of Cultural and Natural Resources by Douglas M. Knudson,Ted T. Cable,Larry Beck Pdf

This text explains cultural and natural environments and how to process information for the public in museums, parks, forests, and many other private and public interpretive agencies worldwide. Based in research and theory, this book defines, affirms, and unifies this diverse field for both professionals and students by presenting the challenges and possibilities of the field including the presentation of interpretation to diverse audiences; effective programming strategies; state-of-the-art management and marketing techniques; training and using volunteers; and the trends facing interpretation today and in the future.

Author : Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134915859

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Museums and Their Visitors by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill Pdf

A guide for museum and gallery staff in the development of provision for their visitors, to ensure survival into the next century.

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786723751

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Local Knowledge by Clifford Geertz Pdf

In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion volume to The Interpretation of Cultures, this book continues Geertz’s exploration of the meaning of culture and the importance of shared cultural symbolism. With a new introduction by the author.

Author : Eileen Hooper Greenhill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134912698

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Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge by Eileen Hooper Greenhill Pdf

Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time, when funding is becoming increasingly scarce, difficult questions are being asked about the justification of museums. Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge presents a critical survey of major changes in current assumptions about the nature of museums. Through the examination of case studies, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill reveals a variety of different roles for museums in the production and shaping of knowledge. Today, museums are once again organising their spaces and collections to present themselves as environments for experimental and self-directed learning.

Author : Kurt Mundorff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000096460

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A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention by Kurt Mundorff Pdf

This book critiques the dominant physical and biological interpretation of the Genocide Convention and argues that the idea of "culture" is central to properly understanding the crime of genocide. Using Raphael Lemkin’s personal papers, archival materials from the State Department and the UN, as well as the mid-century secondary literature, it situates the convention in the longstanding debate between Enlightenment notions of universality and individualism, and Romantic notions of particularism and holism. The author conducts a thorough review of the treaty and its preparatory work to show that the drafters brought strong culturalist ideas to the debate and that Lemkin’s ideas were held widely in the immediate postwar period. Reconstructing the mid-century conversation on genocide and situating it in the much broader mid-century discourse on justice and society he demonstrates that culture is not a distraction to be read out of the Genocide Convention; it is the very reason it exists. This volume poses a forceful challenge to the materialist interpretation and calls into question decades of international case law. It will be of interest to scholars of genocide, human rights, international law, the history of international law and human rights, and treaty interpretation.

Author : William Irwin,Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 074255175X

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Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture by William Irwin,Jorge J. E. Gracia Pdf

Containing thirteen articles, this book makes the case to philosophers that popular culture is worthy of their attention. It considers popular art forms such as movies, television shows, comic books, children's stories, photographs, and rock songs.

Author : Isaac Ariail Reed
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226706726

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Interpretation and Social Knowledge by Isaac Ariail Reed Pdf

For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. Interpretation and Social Knowledge suggests a different route, offering a way forward for an antinaturalist sociology that overcomes the opposition between interpretation and explanation and uses theory to build concrete, historically specific causal explanations of social phenomena.