In the lengthy essay on ""Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective,"" Geertz reminds his Yale Law School audience that ""Law may not be a brooding omnipresence in the sky. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. Literary criticism and interpretive anthropology are ""not just cognate activities. Doing comparative law.
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Geertz, C.: 1983, ‘Local knowledge: Fact and law in comparative perspective,’ Local Knowledge, Basic Books, Inc.,New York. Local knowledge : further essays in interpretive anthropology. In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to ‘Constitution’ – like ‘nation’, ‘state’, ‘democracy’, and ‘sovereignty’ – appears as one of the central icons and also one of the most ambiguous ideological structures in the pool of cultural representations of modernity.
but it is not, as the down-home rhetoric of legal realism would have it, a collection of ingenious devices to avoid disputes. After highflying mecta-commentaries and Anschauungs, the final recommendation is a down-to-earth, peace-making plea. For It is also improbable that anyone but the players will know what is going on. H. Patrick Glenn, Legal Traditions of the World, 5 th ed. Google Scholar Hence constitutions are not cages of norms, but texts situated in contested fields of ideas and interests and run through by competing interpretations.In general, comparative constitutional scholarship, rather than expressly addressing the question ‘what is a constitution?’, pragmatically settles on a couple of meanings – or less. Geertz, C. Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective Geertz, C. Local Knowledge New York Basic Books 1983 167 Geertz , C. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory … .
Here, less convincingly, he is exploring theories and the tension between various forms of ""local knowledge"" (art, common sense, custom) and ""generalized knowledge.""
. [Clifford Geertz] Home. Prof. Geertz (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton) regards the anthropologist as one who uncovers layers of meaning in one culture and translates them into the terms of another culture--in the mode of his classic analysis of a Balinese cockfight, in The Interpretation of Cultures. Geertz, Clifford (2000) ‘Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture’, in: Geertz, Clifford (ed.) Search.