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3 days ago · — Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures * You don’t need to know any history to be floored by a Gothic cathedral’s soaring spaces and the ethereal light that fills them. And you don’t need to be able to identify the figures and narratives in the art that adorns the architecture in order to appreciate it on a formal and technical level.
5 days ago · An interpretive approach in anthropology was popularized in the 1970s by Clifford Geertz, remembered mostly for his influence on symbolic anthropology. He stated that “ethnography is thick description,” which implies thick description is concept inherent to ethnography.
2 days ago · This is sometimes referred to as "thick description" -- a term attributed to the anthropologist Clifford Geertz writing on the idea of an interpretive theory of culture in the early 1970s. The ethnographer goes beyond reporting events and details of experience.
3 days ago · Clifford Geertz (1973: 240–241) summarized this task as the achievement of a desirable balance between two opposing orientations but complementary: “epochalism” and “essentialism,” the adaptation to the requirements of the present and the preservation of a collective identity linked to a historical past. Both must be satisfied to some extent if we want the modernizing process to be ...
5 days ago · Clifford Geertz was the most influential proponent of an “interpretive” anthropology. This represented a movement away from biological frameworks of explanation and a rejection of sociological or psychological preoccupations.
18 hours ago · For example, see Clifford Geertz, Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980); Carl Death, “Summit Theatre: Exemplary Governmentality and Environmental Diplomacy in Johannesburg and Copenhagen,” Environmental Politics 20, no. 1 (2011): 1–19.
4 days ago · How to say Clifford geertz in English? Pronunciation of Clifford geertz with 4 audio pronunciations, 3 translations and more for Clifford geertz.
