 | Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence - Performing Arts - 1984 - 304 pages
...as an important collective "text" in the sense that "the culture of a people is an ensemble of texts which the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong" (Geertz 1974:29), a text in which certain aspects of a culture's ethos are "spelled... | |
 | Robert Neal Wilson - Psychology - 1986 - 190 pages
...Similarly, Clifford Geertz advises the anthropologist to adopt this stance of sympathetic interpretation: The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves...strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong. There are enormous difficulties in such an enterprise, methodological pitfalls to... | |
 | James Clifford, George E. Marcus - Social Science - 1986 - 320 pages
...constructions a certain, if you will, substantialized authority, Geertz refers in "Deep Play" to culture "as an ensemble of texts, themselves ensembles, which the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulder of those to whom they properly belong" (452 — 53). '3 The image is striking: sharing and... | |
 | Gwen Kennedy Neville - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1987 - 176 pages
...special preaching seasons, festivals of Christmas, Lent, Easter, and many more. To quote Geertz again, "The culture of a people is an ensemble of Texts,...strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong" (Geertz 1973:452). Reunion and Symbolic Inversion In attempting to understand the... | |
 | Richard M. Swiderski - Social Science - 1987 - 164 pages
...societies, paintings, wars and lives are texts ready to be read and interpreted. Cultures are made of texts: "The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts,...strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong" (Geertz 1972:452). The history of ethnographers reading over shoulders, from the nose-thrusting... | |
 | Paul Rabinow, William M. Sullivan - Social Science - 1987 - 408 pages
...and Moliere were contemporaries, or that the same people who arrange chrysanthemums cast swords. 42 The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves ensembles, that the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong. There... | |
 | William Roseberry - Social Science - 1989 - 300 pages
...things as signal conspiracies and join them or perceive insults and answer them ..." (ibid.: 13). Or: "The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts,...strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong" (1973c: 452). The last quote comes from the wellknown essay, "Deep Play: Notes on... | |
 | Robert D. Pelton - Religion - 1989 - 334 pages
...ability to analyze them in depth linguistically. Clifford Geertz frames the problem with special grace: The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves...strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong. There are enormous difficulties in such an enterprise, methodological pitfalls to... | |
 | Alex Weingrod - Social Science - 1990 - 168 pages
...for many years to come. "The culture of a people," writes Clifford Geertz in a well-known passage, "is an ensemble of texts, themselves ensembles, which...strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong" (1973, 452). This is an appealing image: like poems, myths or paintings so, too, events... | |
 | Chandra Mukerji, Michael Schudson - Art - 1991 - 514 pages
...and Molière were contemporaries, or that the same people who arrange chrysanthemums cast swords.42 The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves...strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong. There are enormous difficulties in such an enterprise, methodological pitfalls to... | |
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The culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves ensembles which the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong. 
