Clifford Geertz is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of, among other works, The Social History of an Indonesian Town and Negara: The Balinese State in the Nineteenth Century. (March 2006)
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Among the Infidels
March 23, 2006
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
by Natalie Zemon Davis
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‘Very Bad News’
June 9, 2005
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Very Bad News
March 24, 2005
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Catastrophe: Risk and Response
by Richard A. Posner
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Morality Tale
October 7, 2004
Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian
by Orin Starn
Ishi in Three Centuries
edited by Karl Kroeber and Clifton Kroeber
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Which Way to Mecca? Part II
July 3, 2003
Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
by Gilles Kepel
Militant Islam Reaches America
by Daniel Pipes
The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa’ud from Tradition to Terror
by Stephen Schwartz
Terror and Liberalism
by Paul Berman
The Future of Political Islam
by Graham E. Fuller
After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
by Noah Feldman
Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society
by Riaz Hassan
The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change
by Muhammad Qasim Zaman
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Which Way to Mecca?
June 12, 2003
What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
by Bernard Lewis
Islam in a Globalizing World
by Thomas W. Simons Jr.
The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict Between Islam and Christianity
by M.J. Akbar
Islam: A Short History
by Karen Armstrong
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The Last Humanist
September 26, 2002
A Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art
by E.H. Gombrich
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The Visit
October 18, 2001
A Society Without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China
by Cai Hua, translated from the French by Asti Hustvedt
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Indonesia: Starting Over
May 11, 2000
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Deep Hanging Out
October 22, 1998
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
by Pierre Clastres, translated by Paul Auster
Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century
by Clifford. James
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Learning With Bruner
April 10, 1997
The Culture of Education by Jerome Bruner
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Culture War
November 30, 1995
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
by Gananath Obeyesekere
How ‘Natives’ Think, About Captain Cook, for Example by Marshall Sahlins
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Life on the Edge
April 7, 1994
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
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Genet’s Last Stand
November 19, 1992
Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet, translated by Barbara Bray, Introduction by Edmund White
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A Lab of One’s Own
November 8, 1990
Feminism and Science edited by Nancy Tuana
The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science
by Londa Schiebinger
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science by Donna Haraway
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A South Sea Renaissance
February 16, 1989
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 14501680: Vol. I, The Lands below the Winds by Anthony Reid
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The Ultimate Ghetto
February 28, 1985
The Last Arab Jews: The Communities of Jerba, Tunisia by Abraham L. Udovitch, by Lucette Valensi
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Understanding Islam
December 2, 1982
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Conjuring with Islam
May 27, 1982
Muslim Society by Ernest Gellner
Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society by Roy P. Mottahedeh
On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies by Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini translated and annotated by Hamid Algar
Studies on Islam translated and edited by Merlin L. Swartz
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W. Said
Islam in the Modern World and Other Studies by Elie Kedourie
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Sociosexology
April 3, 1980
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Sociosexology
January 24, 1980
The Evolution of Human Sexuality
by Donald Symons
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Stir Crazy
January 26, 1978
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan
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Mysteries of Islam
December 11, 1975
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol. 1: The Classical Age of Islam by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol. 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol. 3: The Gunpowder Empire and Modern Times by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
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In Search of North Africa
April 22, 1971
Saints of the Atlas by Ernest Gellner
Revolution and Political Leadership: Algeria 1954-1968 by William B. Quandt
Wolves in the City: The Death of French Algeria by Paul Henissart
The Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
Change at Shebika: Report from a North African Village by Jean Duvignaud
Ramparts of Clay written by Jean Duvignaud, directed by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli
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Gandhi: Non-Violence as Therapy
November 20, 1969
Gandhi’s Truth, or the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson
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Under the Mosquito Net
September 14, 1967
A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term by Bronislaw Malinowski
Coral Gardens and their Magic: I: Soil Tilling and Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands II: The Language of Magic and Gardening by Bronislaw Malinowski