Textes des contributions présentées au symposium tenu le 23 novembre 2002 à New Orleans dans le cadre du 100ème anniversaire de la American Anthropological Association

Bibliogr. de Clifford Geertz p. 130-139. Bibliogr. en fin de contributions. Index

Sommaire : Preface / Richard A. Shweder and Byron Good --
Cliff notes : the pluralisms of Clifford Geertz / Richard A. Shweder --
Passing judgment : interpretation, morality, and cultural assessment in the work of Clifford Geertz / Lawrence Rosen --
Celebrating Geertzian interpretivism / Jerome Bruner --
Coded communications : symbolic psychological anthropology / Robert A. LeVine --
Geertz's style : a moral matter / James A. Boon --
Clifford Geertz on time and change / Natalie Zemon Davis --
Happenstance and patterns / Amelie Oksenberg Rorty --
Geertz's concept of culture in historical context : how he saved the day and maybe the century / James Peacock --
Clifford Geertz and Islam / Dale F. Eickelman --
Deep play, violence, and social reconstruction / Michael M.J. Fischer --
Speaking to large issues : the world, if it is not in pieces / Ulf Hannerz --
On the "subject" of culture : subjectivity and cultural phenomenology in the work of Clifford Geertz / Byron Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good --
Commentary / Clifford Geertz

Clifford Geertz is the most influential American anthropologist of the past four decades. His writings have defined and given character to the intellectual agenda of a meaning-centered, non-reductive interpretive social science and have provoked much excitement and debate about the nature of human understanding. As part of the American Anthropological Association's centennial celebration, the executive board sponsored a presidential session honoring Geertz. Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues compiles the speeches given then by a distinguished panel of social scientists along with a concluding piece by Geertz in which he responds to each speaker and reflects on his own career. These edited speeches cover a broad range of topics, including Geertz's views on morality, cultural critique, interpretivism, time and change, Islam, and violence. A fitting tribute to one of the great thinkers of our age, this collection will be enjoyed by anthropologists as well as students of psychology, history, and philosophy