Ebook: The interpretation of cultures: selected essays

In [this book] the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. [It] helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.-http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com.;Part I: Thick description, toward an interpretive theory of culture -- Part II: Impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man; Growth of culture and the evolution of mind -- Part III: Religion as a cultural system; Ethos, world view, and the analysis of sacred symbols; Ritual and social change, a Javanese example; -- "Internal conversion" in contemporary Bali -- Part IV: Ideology as a cultural system; After the revolution, the fate of nationalism in the new states; Integrative revolution, primordial sentiments and civil politics in the new states; Politics of meaning; Politics past, politics present, some notes on the uses of anthropology in understanding the new states -- Part V: Cerebral savage, on the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss; Person, time, and conduct in Bali; Deep play, notes on the Balinese cockfight.