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Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures, 1973
解説：池田光穂
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a. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
"In her book, Philosophy in a New Key, Susanne Langer remarks that certain ideas burst upon the intelectual landscape with a tremendous force."
b. The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man
"Toward the end of his recent study of the ideas used by tribal peoples, La Pens仔 Sauvage, the French anthropologist Levi-Strauss remarks that scientific explanation does not consist, as we have been led to imagine, in a substituion of the complex to the simple."
c. The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind
"In the intellectual history of the behavioral sciences the concept of "mind" has played a curious double role"
d. Religion As a Cultural System
"Two characteristics of anthropological work on religion accomplised since the second world war stricke me as curious when such work is placed against that carried out just before and just after the first. One is that has made no theoretical advances of major importances. It is living off the conceptual capital of its ancesters, adding very little, save a certain empirical enrichment, to it. The second is that it draws what concepts it does use from a very narrowly defined intellectual tradition".
"Usually, of course, religions affirm very much more than this:
we believe, as James remarked, all that we can and would believe
everything if we only could.20 The thing we seem least able to tolerate
is a threat to our powers of conception, a suggestion that our ability
to create, grasp, and use symbols may fail us, for were this to happen,
we would be more helpless, as I have already pointed out, than the
beavers. The extreme
generality, diffuseness, and variability of man's innate (that is,
genetically programmed) response capacities means that without the
assistance of cultural patterns he would be functionally incomplete,
not merely a talented. ape who had, like some underprivileged child,
unfortunately been prevented from realizing his full potentialities,
but a kind of formless monster with neither sense of direction nor
power of self-control, a chaos of spasmodic impUlses and vague
emotions. Man depends upon symbols and symbol systems with a dependence
so great as to be decisive for his creatural viability and, as a
result, his sensitivity to even the remotest indication that they may
prove unable to cope with one or another aspect of experience raises
within him the gravest sort of anxiety (Geertz 1973:99)"
e. Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols
"Religion is never merely metaphysics".
f. Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example
"As in so many areas of anthropological concern, functionalism, either of the sociological sort associated with the name of Radcliffe-Brown or of the social-psychological sort associated with Malinowski, has tended to dominate recent theoretical discussion of the role of religion in society".
g. "Internal Conversion" in Contemporary Bali
"We hear much these days about political and ecomonic modernization in the new states of Asia and Africa, but little about religious modernization".
h. Ideology As a Cultural System
"It is one of the minor ironies of modern intellectual history that the term "ideology" has itself become thoroughly ideologized".
i. After the Revolution : The Fate of Nationalism in the New States
"Between 1945 and 1968 sixty-six "countries" -- the actualities demand the quotation marks -- attained political independence from colonial rule".
j. The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States
"In 1948, acercely a year after Independence, Pandit Nehru found himself in the always unsetting position for an opposition politician finally come power of being obliged to place in practice a policy he had long espoused but never liked. With Patel and Sitaramayya, he was appointed to the Linguistic Provinces Comittee".
k. The Politics of Meaning
"One of the things that everyone knows but no one can quite think how to demonstrate is that a country's politics reflect the design of its culture".
l. Politics Past, Politics Present : Some Notes on the Uses of Anthropology in Understanding the New States
"In recent years, the main meeting ground of the vourious branches of learning which in some uncertain way make up the social sciences has been the study of the so-called Third World: the forming nations and tottering states of Asia, Africa, and Latin America".
m. The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Levi-Strauss
"What, after all, is one to make savages ?"
n. Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali
"Human thought is consummately social: social in its origins, social in its funcions, social in its forms, social in its applications".
o. Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
"Early in April of 1958, my wife and I arrived, malarial and different, in a Balinese village we intended, as anthropologists, to study".
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber. 1905
Penny Capitalism, by Sol Tax 1953.
HyperGeertz
Geertz, Clifford., 1983/4?. Culture and Social Change: The Indonesian Case Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 19(4):511-532.
"The method of anthropology -- intensive, first-hand field study of small social units within the larger Society - means that its primary contribution to the understanding of economic development must inevitably lie in a relatively microscopic and circumstantial analysis of a wide range of social processes as they appear in concrete form in this village, or that town, or the other social class; the theoretical framework of the economist almost as inevitably trains his interest on the society as a whole and on the aggregate implications for the entire economy of the processes the anthropologist studies in miniature (Geertz 1963:4)"
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