Jeffrey C. Alexander & Philip Smith 
Interpreting Clifford Geertz [PDF ebook] 
Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Clifford Geertz; J.Alexander & P.Smith PART I: GEERTZ, TEXT AND STRUCTURE Semiotics AND Thick Description; P.Brooks Balinese Cockfight Decoded; P.Smith On Not Doing Systems; J.Errington PART II: GEERTZ, INTERPRETATION AND MEANING Geertzian Irony; G.Warnke Clifford Geertz and the Strong Program; J.Alexander Maximal Interpretation in Clifford Geertz and the Strong Program; I.Reed Thick Description as a Cosmopolitan Practice; P.Lichterman ‘Malarial and Diffident’; R.Wagner-Pacifici PART III: GEERTZ AND THE DISCIPLINES Thick Description, Thin History; S.Clark Scientific Cultures; P.Galison Geertz’s Legacy Beyond the Modes of Cultural Analysis of His Time; G.Marcus ‘To locate in the tenor of their setting the sources of their spell’; M.Trondman Ritual, Power, and Style; B.Giesen PART IV: GEERTZ, LIFE, AND WORK Clifford Geertz as a Cultural System; D.Apter On Clifford Geertz; R.Darnton The Geertz Effect; M.Norton

JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA.
 
PHILIP SMITH
Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA.
 
MATTHEW NORTON Ph D Candidate at Yale University, USA.