 | Yehudi A. Cohen - Social Science - 628 pages
...asserted almost everything at one time or another — it is firm in the conviction that men unmodified by the customs of particular places do not in fact...important, could not in the very nature of the case exist. There is, there can be, no backstage where we can go to catch a glimpse of Mascou's actors as "real... | |
 | Beth J. Singer - Political Science - 1993 - 238 pages
...behavior. Whatever else modern anthropology asserts ... it is firm in the conviction that men unmodified by the customs of particular places do not in fact...important, could not in the very nature of the case exist. 7 Human life is life governed by social norms, life in normative communities. This being the case,... | |
 | Alan Warren Friedman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 360 pages
...is inseparable from them . . . modern anthropology ... is firm in the conviction that men unmodified by the customs of particular places do not in fact...have never existed, and most important, could not . . . exist.46 Anthropologists like Geertz, who emphasize cultures (uncapitalized and plural), sound... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Drama - 1996 - 224 pages
...asserted almost everything at one time or another - it is firm in the conviction that men unmodified by the customs of particular places do not in fact...important, could not in the very nature of the case exist. There is, there can be, no backstage where we can catch a glimpse of Mascou's actors as "real persons"... | |
 | Steven Schroeder - Philosophy - 2000 - 164 pages
...complexity and order is connected to the assertion of modern anthropology that human beings "unmodified by the customs of particular places do not in fact...important, could not in the very nature of the case exist" (Geertz, p. 35). To be human is to be in place, to be modified and to some extent defined by culture.... | |
 | Paul Langford - History - 2000 - 402 pages
...of its most distinguished students, Clifford Geertz, 'is firm in the conviction that men unmodified by the customs of particular places do not in fact...important, could not in the very nature of the case exist'.32 The sentiment is virtually that of the eighteenth-century historian Robertson, whose wisdom... | |
 | John Howie - Philosophy - 2002 - 296 pages
...1996). 36. See Singer, Operative Rights, chap. 3. In the words of Clifford Geertz, humans "unmodified by the customs of particular places do not in fact...important, could not in the very nature of the case exist" (The Interpretation of Culture [New York: Basic Books, 1973], 256). 37. The term generic rights is... | |
 | Elizabeth Elkin Grammer - Religion - 2002 - 236 pages
...anthropology asserts," Clifford Geertz has argued, "it is firm in the conviction that men unmodified by the customs of particular places do not in fact...important, could not in the very nature of the case exist" (5). Or, as historian Elizabeth Fox-Genovese puts it, "We know ourselves through the languages available... | |
 | Robert Caper - Psychoanalysis - 1999 - 398 pages
...social contract theories of the Enlightenment must be rejected as myth. As Geertz says, 'men unmodified by the customs of particular places do not in fact exist, have never existed . . . could not exist' (Geertz 1993: 35). Human beings are always and essentially social beings. In... | |
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... men unmodified by the customs of particular places do not in fact exist, have never existed, and most important, could not in the very nature of the case exist. 