2001: Ethnography in China

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The Comic Vision of Clifford Geertz 1
4. Part I. Sages and Anthropologists
5. 1967: On Malinowski 15
6. 1969: On Gandhi 21
7. 1978: On Foucault 29
8. 1992: On Genet 39
9. 2001: Ethnography in China 47
10. Part II. Islams and the Fluidity of Nations
11. 1971: In Search of North Africa 61
12. 1975: Mysteries of Islam 71
13. 1985: The Last Arab Jews 81
14. 1989: House Painting: Toutes Directions 88
15. 1990: On Feminism 101
16. 2000: Indonesia: Starting Over 112
17. 2001: On the Devastation of the Amazon 123
18. 2003: Which Way to Mecca? Part I 135
19. 2003: Which Way to Mecca? Part II 145
20. 2005: On the State of the World 157
21. Part III. The Idea of Order: Last Lectures
22. 2001: The Near East in the Far East 169
23. 2002: An Inconstant Profession 185
24. 2004: What Is a State If It Is Not a Sovereign? 200
25. 2005: Shifting Aims, Moving Targets 219
26. 2005: What Was the Third World Revolution? 236
27. Acknowledgments And Editorial Details 253
28. Notes 255
29. Index 265