After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist
- ISBN-10
- 0674008723
- ISBN-13
- 9780674008724
- Series
- After the Fact
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 212
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996-10
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Clifford GEERTZ
Description
In looking back on four decades of anthropology in the field, Clifford Geertz creates a personal history that is also a retrospective reflection on developments in the human sciences amid political, social, and cultural changes in the world.
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