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

2001

On the Devastation of the Amazon

2003

Which Way to Mecca? Part I

2003

Which Way To Mecca? Part II

2005

On the State of the World

PART III

The Idea of Order: Last Lectures

2001

The Near East in the Far East

2002

An Inconstant Profession

2004

What Is a State If It Is Not a Sovereign?

2005

Shifting Aims, Moving Targets

2005

What Was the Third World Revolution?

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND EDITORIAL DETAILS

 

NOTES

 

INDEX