This has been in my bookmarks for ages. A fitting time to watch it
again.
Phil
http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/geertz.htm
On 01/11/2006, at 9:24 AM, Paul Dillon wrote:
> mike,
>
> more of those uncanny coincidences: on Saturday night I saw my
> first cock fight and was thinking about Geertz after many, many
> years. Although they are perfectly legal here, unlike Bali, they
> still provide the kind of cultural thickness Geertz described and
> flower networks of meaning. It is sad to read how he passed since
> nowadays 80 seems young (at least for those with good health
> insurance).
>
> Not too long ago (10/6 I think) another significant figure in
> anthropology died as well; although more famous as an
> ethnohistorian, Andeanist, and French-Russian translator for the
> Abraham Lincoln brigade during the Spanish Civil War: John V.
> Murra who was instrumental in creating the field of ethnohistory.
>
> Changing of the guard
>
> Paul Dilllon
>
> Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
> Damn!
>
> http://ias.edu/Newsroom/announcements/Uploads/view.php?cmd=view&id=354
>
> mike
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