02502mam a2200421 a 4500 1590403 BD-DhUL 20160322145037.0 940510s1995 mau b 001 0aeng 94012734 0674008715 (acidfree paper) : $22.95 (OCoLC)ocm30516890 (NNC)1590403 DLC DLC$dOrLoB OrLoB BD-DhUL n-us--- a------ f------ GN21.G44 A3 1995 301.092 20 GEA Geertz, Clifford. After the fact : two countries, four decades, one anthropologist / Clifford Geertz. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995. 198 p. ; 25 cm. The Jerusalem-Harvard lectures Includes bibliographical references and index. "Suppose," Clifford Geertz suggests, "having entangled yourself every now and again over four decades or so in the goings-on in two provincial towns, one a Southeast Asian bend in the road, one a North African outpost and passage point, you wished to say something about how those goings-on had changed." A narrative presents itself, a tour of indices and trends, perhaps a memoir? None, however, will suffice, because in forty years more has changed than those two towns - the anthropologist, for instance, anthropology itself, even the intellectual and moral world in which the discipline exists. To view his two towns in time, Pare in Indonesia and Sefrou in Morocco, Geertz adopts various perspectives on anthropological research and analysis during the post-colonial period, the Cold War, and the emergence of the new states of Asia and Africa. Throughout, he clarifies his own position on a broad series of issues at once empirical, methodological, theoretical, and personal. The result is a truly original book, one that displays a particular way of practicing the human sciences and thus a particular - and particularly efficacious - view of what these sciences are, have been, and should become. Geertz, Clifford. Anthropologists United States Biography. Anthropologists Asia Biography. Philosophical anthropology. Asia Social conditions. Africa Social conditions. Jerusalem-Harvard lectures. AUTH TOC ddc BK 20100517 a dc21 MPS 49699 49699 0 0 ddc 0 301_092000000000000_GEA 0 NFIC 82321 DUL DUL GEN 2001-04-28 Purchased 301.092 GEA 393901 2016-03-22 2016-03-22 BK