His first book contrasted the swidden and the sawah rice fields in Indonesia and was titled Agricultural Involution.
This anthropologist analyzed Bentham's concept of "deep play" in his essay on the Balinese cockfight. His most recent book is Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. His first project was a study of the effects of drought, death and the effects of alcohol on the five Native American cultures at Rimrock. His first book contrasted the swidden and the sawah rice fields in Indonesia and was titled Agricultural Involution. Known for his supposed cultural relativism and theories of local knowledge, his most famous work argues against a scientific outlook on anthropology. FTP, identify this Princeton anthropologist, the author of The Interpretation of Cultures.
This anthropologist analyzed Bentham's concept of "deep play" in his essay on the Balinese cockfight.
Clifford Geertz