Works and lives : the anthropologist as author /

Works and lives : the anthropologist as author /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Geertz, Clifford.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Polity Press, 1999, c1988.
Description:	vi, 157 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnology -- Authorship. Anthropology. Anthropology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7904675

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ISBN:	0745607594 (pbk) 9780745607597 (pbk)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards:	"Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for criticism 1989." --Cover.

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Summary:	This major work, now available in paperback, by one of the world's leading anthropologists discusses the style, imagery and metaphor of the great anthropologists, thereby developing Geertz's claim that doing good anthropology is like writing good literature.
Physical Description:	vi, 157 p. ; 22 cm.
Awards:	"Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for criticism 1989." --Cover.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	0745607594 (pbk) 9780745607597 (pbk)