Local Knowledge

Local Knowledge
Author: Clifford Geertz
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008-08-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786723750

In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion volume to The Interpretation of Cultures, this book continues Geertz’s exploration of the meaning of culture and the importance of shared cultural symbolism. With a new introduction by the author.

The Negro

The Negro
Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1915
Genre: Africa
ISBN:

The Geography of the Imagination

The Geography of the Imagination
Author: Guy Davenport
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781567920802

In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.