Abstract
Part I * Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture Part II * The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man * The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind Part III * Religion As a Cultural System * Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols * Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example * Internal Conversion in Contemporary Bali Part IV * Ideology As a Cultural System * After the Revolution: The Fate of Nationalism in the New States * The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States * The Politics of Meaning * Politics Past, Politics Present: Some Notes on the Uses of Anthropology in Understanding the New States PART V * The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Lvi-Strauss * Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali * Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
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Interpretation (philosophy)EpistemologySociologyPhilosophyLinguistics
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Elizabeth Colson,
Clifford Geertz
(1975).
The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays..
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
, 4
(6)
, 637-637.
https://doi.org/10.2307/2064031
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- 10.2307/2064031