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Includes an updated preface adding additional context about the author's incredible life

Local Knowledge all or nothing where his grandfather was aFrom the preeminent anthropologist, a landmark exploration of how culture shapes human society Shrewd and often illuminating."New York Times Over his storied career, Clifford Geertz pioneered ground breaking approaches to anthropology, arguing that interpreting and analyzing cultural symbols was central to understanding a wide range of societies. In Local Knowledge, he revisits and expands the core ideas that reshaped an entire field. In chapters