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Clifford Geertz in Morocco book cover

1st Edition

Clifford Geertz in Morocco

Edited By Susan Slyomovics Copyright 2010
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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Between 1963 and 1986, eminent American anthropologists Clifford and Hildred Geertz - together and alone - conducted ethnographic fieldwork for varying periods in Sefrou, a town situated in north-central Morocco, south of Fez.  This book considers Geertz’s contributions to sociocultural theory and symbolic anthropology.  Clifford Geertz made an immense impact on the American... Read more

1. Introduction to Clifford Geertz in Morocco: "Why Sefrou? Why Anthropology? Why Me?" - Susan Slyomovics (UCLA)

Part I: Islam Re-Observed

2. Introduction to Islam Observed (Hebrew Translation, 2007) - Clifford Geertz

3. Islam Re-Observed: Sanctity, Salafism, and Islamism - Lahouari Addi (University of Lyon, France)

4. How Religion Turns into Ideology - Hassan Rachik (Hassan II University, Morocco)

5. Religious Act, Public Space: Reflections on Some Geertzian Concepts - Mondher Kilani (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

6. Interpretation and the Limits of Interpretability: On Rethinking Clifford Geertz’s Semiotics of Religious Experience - C. Jason Throop (University of California Los Angeles, USA)

Part II: Translation, Metaphor, Humor

7. Not Lost in Translation: The Influence of Clifford Geertz’s Work and Life on Anthropology in Morocco - Dale F. Eickelman (Dartmouth College, USA)

8. Geertz, Humor, and Morocco - Kevin Dwyer (American University of Cairo, Egypt)

9. Culture as Text: Hazards and Possibilities of Geertz’s Literary/Literacy Metaphor - Katherine E. Hoffman (Northwestern University, USA)

Part III: Photography, Paul Hyman, and Clifford Geertz

10. Paul Hyman, photographer. A (Fashion) Photographer’s Reflections on Fieldwork

11. Susan Slyomovics, UCLA. Perceptions, Not Illustrations, of Sefrou, Morocco: Paul Hyman’s Images and the Work of Ethnographic Photography

12. Chicken or Glass: In the Vicinity of Clifford Geertz and Paul Hyman - Paul Rabinow (UC Berkeley)

Part IV: Urban Space and Sefrou

13. Of Time and the City: Clifford Geertz on Urban History - Susan Gilson Miller (University of California, Davis, USA)

14. Observing Islam Observed: The Family Resemblance and the Pun - Lawrence Rosen (Princeton University, USA)

15. Sidi Lahcen Blues - Aziz Abbassi

Part V: Modernism, Meaning, and Order

16. How Life is Hard: Visceral Notes on Meaning, Order, and Morocco - David Crawford (Fairfield University, USA)

17. Are We There Yet? Geertz, Morocco, and Modernization - Thomas Dichter

18. Welcome Message from the Mayor of Sefrou - Hafid Ouchchak

Biography

Susan Slyomovics is Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

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