Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost anthropologist in America. His 1980 book Negara analyzed the social organization of Bali before it was colonized by the Dutch in 1906. Here Geertz ap…
To view his two towns in time, Pare in Indonesia and Sefrou in Morocco, Greetz adopts various perspectives on anthropological research and analysis during the postcolonial period, the Cold War, and the emergence of the new states of Asia and Africa.