Clifford Geertz in Morocco (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Slyomovics, Susan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the contribution of eminent American anthropologist Clifford Geertz's contributions to sociocultural theory and symbolic anthropology in relation to Islam, urban studies, and the anthropology of North Africa.

This book was published as a special issue of Journal of North African Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317988168
• Artikelnr.: 58399743

Autorenporträt

Susan Slyomovics is Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Clifford Geertz in Morocco: "Why Sefrou? Why
Anthropology? Why Me?" Part I: Islam Re-Observed 2. Introduction to Islam
Observed (Hebrew Translation, 2007) 3. Islam Re-Observed: Sanctity,
Salafism, and Islamism 4. How Religion Turns into Ideology 5. Religious
Act, Public Space: Reflections on Some Geertzian Concepts 6. Interpretation
and the Limits of Interpretability: On Rethinking Clifford Geertz's
Semiotics of Religious Experience Part II: Translation, Metaphor, Humor 7.
Not Lost in Translation: The Influence of Clifford Geertz's Work and Life
on Anthropology in Morocco 8. Geertz, Humour and Morocco 9. Culture as
Text: Hazards and Possibilities of Geertz's Literary/Literacy Metaphor
Part III: Photography, Paul Hyman, and Clifford Geertz 10. A (Fashion)
Photographer's Reflections on Fieldwork 11. Perceptions, Not Illustrations,
of Sefrou, Morocco: Paul Hyman's Images and the Work of Ethnographic
Photography 12. Chicken or Glass: In the Vicinity of Clifford Geertz and
Paul Hyman Part IV: Urban Space and Sefrou 13. Of Time and the City:
Clifford Geertz on Urban History 14. Observing Islam Observed: The Family
Resemblance and the Pun 15. Sidi Lahcen Blues Part V: Modernism, Meaning,
and Order 16. How Life is Hard: Visceral Notes on Meaning, Order, and
Morocco 17. Are We There Yet? Geertz, Morocco, and Modernization 18.
Welcome Message from the Mayor of Sefrou