Suq : Geertz on the Market / Clifford Geertz and Lawrence Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geertz, Clifford, author.

Rosen, Lawrence, 1941- author.

Series:

Classics in Ethnographic Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bazaars (Markets).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

2023

Chicago, IL : Hau Books, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A formative ethnography of the relationship between markets and social life, back in print. Originally published in 1979, Clifford Geertz's essay on the Moroccan bazaar is a classic ethnographic account of the interplay of economic, social, and religious lives in the bustle of transaction. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the Middle Atlas town of Sefrou, Geertz explores how actors from diverse backgrounds assess the worth and meaning of other people's wares, words, and ways of doing business. He shows how the search for market information, so central to the theorization of markets by economists, is here based on careful appraisals of social relations, embedded in understandings of the broader institutional environment of the market town and its hinterlands. With a richness of insights procured for generations of readers, Geertz's essay on the sūq is a model of and for the craft of ethnographic theory. Long out of print, it is republished here in a stand-alone edition introduced by Lawrence Rosen.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

9781914363009

1914363000

9781914363146

1914363140