The Interpretation Of CulturesHailed by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the hundred most influential books published since World War II In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about. |
Contents
Chapter 2 The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of | |
Chapter 3 The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind | |
Chapter 4 Religion As a Cultural System | |
Chapter 5 Ethos World View and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols | |
A Javanese Example | |
Chapter 7 Internal Conversion in Contemporary Bali | |
Chapter 8 Ideology As a Cultural System | |
The Fate of Nationalism in the New States | |
Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in | |
Chapter 11 The Politics of Meaning | |
Some Notes on the Uses of Anthropology | |
On the Work of Claude LéviStrauss | |
Notes on the Balinese Cockfight | |
Acknowledgments | |
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