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ReviewIn this important new book, Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology, editors Neni Panourgia and George E. Marcus have assembled an impressive array of chapters that map the crisscrossing circuits of interpretative inquiry that have followed from Clifford Geertz's (and Marcus's) original arguments. American EthnologistWhether selfreflexive, selfcritical orengaged in radical refashioning, the strengthof the discipline as it reframes itself throughthis beautiful volume is luminously evident.Gil Anidjar, Columbia UniversityEssays by American, Greek, and other scholars who draw on the theories of Clifford Geertz. The Chronicle of Higher EducationA strong, timely and coherent collection . . .a clarioncall for the ongoing relevance ofinterpretive anthropology to the discipline.David Sutton, Southern Illinois University CarbondaleProduct DescriptionClifford Geertz, in his 1973 Interpretation of Cultures, brought about an epistemological revolution unprecedented since LviStrausss structuralism. In place of LviStrausss deep structures, Geertz placed deep meanings and thick descriptions, in a synthesis of the American tradition of cultural anthropology and new qualitative approaches in the humanities. He powerfully synthesized and gave the heart of anthropologys tradition a new and enriched conceptual language that came to be known as interpretive anthropology and that placed meaning over form in the center of social analysis. This book maps the circuits of cross fertilizations among disciplines in the humanities and social sciences that have developed from Geertzs interpretive turn.Panourgia and Marcus bring together anthropologists working in various parts of the world (Greece, Bali, Taiwan, the United States) with classicists, historians, and scholars in cultural studies. The volume takes into account global realities such as 9/11 and the opening of the Cypriot Green Line and explores the different ways in which Geertzs anthropology has shaped the pedagogy of their disciplines and enabled discussions among them. Focusing on place and time, locations and temporalities, the essays in this volume interrogate the fixity of interpretation and open new spaces of inquiry. The volume addresses a wide audience from the humanities and the social sciencesanyone interested in the development of a new humanism that will relocate the human as a subject of social action.ReviewIn this important new book, Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology, editors Neni Panourgia and George E. Marcus have assembled an impressive array of chapters that map the crisscrossing circuits of interpretative inquiry that have followed from Clifford Geertz's (and Marcus's) original arguments. American EthnologistWhether selfreflexive, selfcritical orengaged in radical refashioning, the strengthof the discipline as it reframes itself throughthis beautiful volume is luminously evident.Gil Anidjar, Columbia UniversityEssays by American, Greek, and other scholars who draw on the theories of Clifford Geertz. The Chronicle of Higher EducationA strong, timely and coherent collection . . .a clarioncall for the ongoing relevance ofinterpretive anthropology to the discipline.David Sutton, Southern Illinois University CarbondaleAbout the AuthorNeni Panourgi is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She has published Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography, winner of the Grand Jury Prize of the International Society of Ethnohistory and cowinner of the Chicago Folklore Prize. She has coedited, with George E. Marcus, the volume Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology (Fordham).George Marcus is Chancellors Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Ethnography Through Thick and Thin, Writing Culture: The Politics and