Book, Interpretation of Cultures, A 1/81[LS]

Clifford Geertz is one of the most original and stimulating anthropologists of his generation and the most prominent proponent of the intellectual movement to reinvigorate the study of culture as a symbolic system. The Interpretation of Cultures – in current reprint, with the new orthographic agreement – ​​has secured for its author the Sorokin Prize from the American Sociological Association in 1974. The book substantiates Geertz's conceptions of what culture is, the role it plays in social life and how it should be adequately studied, in an attempt to systematically clarify the cultural concept itself in its relations with the real behavior of individuals and groups. The Geertzian line of thought reveals a vigorous coherence and an effort to systematically transmit to the reader original ideas that place The Interpretation of Cultures in line with the great Cultural Anthropology books of the last century. Edition updated according to the new spelling agreement.