CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION The Comic Vision of Cliff ord Geertz
PART I
Sages and Anthropologists
1967
On Malinowski
1969
On Gandhi
1978
On Foucault
1992
On Genet
2001
Ethnography in China
PART II
Islams and the Fluidity of Nations
1971
In Search of North Africa
1975
Mysteries of Islam
1985
The Last Arab Jews
1989
House Painting: Toutes Directions
1990
On Feminism
2000
Indonesia: Starting Over
On the Devastation of the Amazon
2003
Which Way to Mecca? Part I
Which Way To Mecca? Part II
2005
On the State of the World
PART III
The Idea of Order: Last Lectures
The Near East in the Far East
2002
An Inconstant Profession
2004
What Is a State If It Is Not a Sovereign?
Shifting Aims, Moving Targets
What Was the Third World Revolution?
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND EDITORIAL DETAILS
NOTES
INDEX