Suq – Geertz on the Market

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By Lawrence Rosen and Clifford Geertz

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Suq – Geertz on the Market presents a classic ethnographic study of the Moroccan bazaar, exploring how economic transactions are deeply interwoven with social and religious life. Based on Clifford Geertz’s extensive fieldwork in the Middle Atlas town of Sefrou, this work reveals how market participants evaluate goods and social relations within a complex institutional framework. The essay highlights the intricate ways in which market information is gathered through social understanding rather than purely economic calculation, providing rich insights into the cultural dimensions of commerce.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars of anthropology, economics, and Middle Eastern studies, as well as anyone interested in the cultural analysis of markets and social life.

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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 theorisation 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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781912808984

Publisher: HAU Society Of Ethnographic Theory

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: HAU Books

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 6.0mm

Height: 9.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 250

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About the Author

Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) was the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. One of the twentieth century’s most notable anthropologists, he was the author of many books on the cultural study of economy and society. Lawrence Rosen is the William Nelson Cromwell Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of Law as Culture: An Invitation, among many other works of legal and political anthropology.

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