Books by Clifford Geertz
Local Knowledge
by Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz is a much travelled American, who is probably the greatest anthropologist of the last 60 or 70 years. He is good at distinguishing between the idea of celebrity and renown. People were renowned partly by virtue of their position, as the monarch was, and partly by virtue of their accomplishments. But celebrity is a different sort of creature when it comes along in the middle of the 18th century.
Interviews where books by Clifford Geertz were recommended
The best books on The Cult of Celebrity, recommended by Fred Inglis
Fred Inglis, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield, selects five books to help us understand the cult of celebrity, which is, as he puts it, “the public dramatisation of our best and worst feelings”.
