The impact of capital-intensive agriculture on peasant social structure : a case study

Cover title"June 1956."At head of title: Economic Development Program"#76"--handwritten on cover"Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology; summary of a larger CENIS study by Dr. Geertz, The social context of economic change; an Indonesian case study, C/56-18.

The social context of economic change : an Indonesian case study

Cover title"July 1956."Copy from MIT Center for International Studies has changed series numbering on t.p. from E/56-18 to C/56-18. -- Originally issued with E/56-18 series numbering"Economic development program."Includes bibliographical reference

O Selvagem Cerebral: sobre a obra de Claude Lévi-Strauss

.TRADUÇÃO: ANTONIO MAURÍCIO DIAS DA COSTA*REVISÃO DA TRADUÇÃO: JOHN C. DAWSE

La description dense

Le célèbre essai de C. Geertz qui sert d’introduction à son Interpretation of Cultures (1973) a constitué pour toute une génération d’anthropologues un véritable manifeste de l’anthropologie « interprétative » et un tournant critique majeur pour la discipline. Or, alors que la quasi-totalité de l’œuvre de Geertz est désormais disponible en français, ce texte fondamental n’avait toujours pas été traduit. Au-delà d’une notion – la description dense – dont la fécondité a dépassé les limites de l’anthropologie, et de plusieurs thèmes qui sont devenus des lieux communs du discours anthropologique postmoderniste, cette traduction nous invite à redécouvrir un texte qui affronte, dans leur foisonnement, maintes questions que soulève la pratique actuelle de l’anthropologie.Thick Description. Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture. C. Geertz’s famous essay, which is an introduction to his Interpretation of Cultures (1973), was considered by a whole generation of anthropologists as a real manifesto of « interpretive » anthropology and a turning point for the discipline. While nearly all of Geertz’s works are available in French, this fundamental text had not been translated until today. This text should not be confined to a notion – thick description – whose fruitfulness certainly bypassed the boundaries of anthropology, nor to some important themes which subsequently became common places for post-modernist anthropological discourse. Indeed, it confronts numerous complex questions raised by current anthropological practice

The development of the Javanese economy : a socio-cultural approach

"April 1956."At head of title: Economic Development Program"#75"--handwritten on coverIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 109-130

Mapping a Cultural Studies of Law

In this chapter I briefly map the terrain of a set of scholarly approaches that could be called a cultural analysis of law. A cultural analysis or a cultural studies of law generally starts with the dual premise that law is a set of meaning-making practices that exists within and is the product of a particular culture and that the culture is a set of meaning-making practices that exists within and is the product of a particular set of laws. In this chapter I unpack and elaborate this foundational idea by exploring three routes along which a cultural analysis of law has been productively pursued: (1) narration, (2) identity, and (3) visuality. Narration is meant to embody a number of different approaches that apply a literary sensibility and critique to the language, interpretation, and rhetoric of law, legal arguments, and legal representations. It also seeks to capture the ways that law and representations of law (in novels, films, and other cultural artifacts) create certain kinds of enduring social narratives and tropes and perhaps teach normative lessons. Identity is a route paved by a robust scholarship that examines the role of law in developing, negotiating, policing, and enforcing certain kinds of individual and collective identities, including racial, ethnic, sexual, national and subnational identities that have been salient at different times. Lastly, I explore more briefly the smaller path of visuality, a recent effort to critically engage with the prominent portrayals of law and legal institutions in our pervasively visual culture as well as with the increasing use of visual arguments and iconography within law and legal practice

Sacred communities: contestations and connections

This article discusses a project whose purpose was to review existing qualitative and quantitative data from two separate studies to provide new insights about everyday religion and belonging. Researchers engaged in knowledge exchange and dialogue with new and former research participants, with other researchers involved in similar research, and with wider academic networks beyond the core disciplines represented here, principally anthropology and geography. Key concluding themes related to the ambivalent nature of ‘faith’, connections over place and time, and the contested nature of community. Implicit in terms like ‘faith’, ‘community’, and ‘life course’ are larger interwoven narratives of space, time, place, corporeality, and emotion. The authors found that understanding how places, communities, and faiths differ and intersect requires an understanding of social relatedness and boundaries

A Case of Cultural Misunderstanding: French Anthropology in a comparative perspective

This paper offers a study of French anthropological tradition in a comparative perspective. It focuses on French anthropologists’ writing practices and, in particular, on a strikingly recurrent phenomenon: that French ethnographers, in addition to their scholarly work, often write a ‘second book,’ a literary account of their experience in the field. The study of the divide between these two books allows for a comparison with other national anthropological traditions, particularly the American one. It sheds light on some difficulties in cultural and intellectual translation between national traditions in social sciences

Rigor and Ethics in the World of Big-team Qualitative Data: Experiences From Research in International Development

In the large international projects where many qualitative researchers work, generating qualitative Big Data, data sharing represents the status quo. This is rarely acknowledged, even though the ethical implications are considerable and span both process and product. I argue that big-team qualitative researchers can strengthen claims to rigor in analysis (the product) by drawing on a growing body of knowledge about how to do credible secondary analysis. Since this necessitates a full account of how the research and the analysis are done (the process), I consider the structural disincentives for providing these. Debates around credibility and rigor are not new to qualitative research in international development, but they intensify when new actors such as program evaluators and quantitative researchers use qualitative methods on a large scale. In this context, I look at the utility of guidelines used by these actors to ensure the quality of qualitative research. I ask whether these offer pragmatic suggestions to improve its quality, recognizing the common and hierarchized separation between the generation and interpretation of data, or conversely, whether they set impossible standards and fail to recognize the differences between and respective strengths of qualitative and quantitative research

Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It

RefereedMichael Crichton FundHarvard Medical SchoolNational Institute of Mental Health Training Grant on “Culture and Mental Health Services” (5T32MH018006-21