Includes bibliographical references

Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture -- The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man -- The growth of culture and the evolution of mind -- Religion as a cultural system -- Ethos, world view, and the analysis of sacred symbols -- Ritual and social change: a Javanese example -- "Internal conversion" in contemporary Bali -- Ideology as a cultural system -- After the revolution: the fate of nationalism in the new states -- The integrative revolution: primordial sentiments and civil politics in the new states -- The politics of meaning -- Politics past, politics present: some notes on the uses of anthropology in understanding the new states -- The cerebral savage: on the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Person, time, and conduct in Bali -- Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight