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By Clifford Geertz

In essays protecting every thing from artwork and customary feel to air of mystery and buildings of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and writer of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our knowing of human societies throughout the intimacies of "local knowledge." A better half quantity to The Interpretation of Cultures, this publication maintains Geertz’s exploration of the that means of tradition and the significance of shared cultural symbolism. With a brand new advent via the author.

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