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Science 24 November 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5496, pp. 1511 - 1512
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5496.1511
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
The Essential Anti-Essentialist

A review by Richard A. Shweder

Available Light Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics
Clifford Geertz
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000. 287 pp. $24.95, £15.95. ISBN 0-691-04974-2.

These 11 essays by the influential and controversial cultural anthropologist Geertz are bound together by the underlying belief in the restricted scope of social science generalizations. The author does not believe there is a universal essence to human nature that strongly determines human behavior.
The author is in the Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, 5730 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. E-mail: rshd{at}midway.uchicago.edu

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)