a book

As long as we're agreed that this IS may dribble over for a while?   Here is a book you really need to put your hands on.   I think you'll enjoy the way "Life Not Death in Venice" treats the arts and change.   And as promised below, I'll attempt to scan in the Geertz short piece that comes at the end.   Also there are essays on "performance" and "images" and how they "in experience" can be studied.   

Here's the note I wrote to Jim Lacey this morning and also posted in the Running and Doing Blog I maintain with Kurt.

 I got a really excellent book off my shelf last night (one that I think I've grown into over the last year).    It's a collection of essays edited  by Victor Turner and Edward Bruner.  And it has a short epilogue by Clifford Geertz:

The Anthropology of Experience. (1986).    Edited by Turner and Bruner.  UP of Illinois.  ISBN:  0252012496

I may scan in the Geertz eiplogue and send it to you and few other people.   It says a lot about how to get at the study of human experiences (leadership?).   Anyway, within it there's a really moving essay by Myerhoff about the studied dynamics of change in a retirement community of older European Jews living in Venice, CA.  Called "Life Not Death in Venice".   And then a really good essay making really fine connections to Thoreau, James and Dewey by Roger Abrahams called "Ordinary and Extraordinary Experience".   

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I will get into the Pollock materials on Tuesday.