Thick Description¶
Geertz, C. (1973). Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture. The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays.
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- Ethnography — the canonical site (Ryle's distinction, Geertz's elaboration): an event such as a ritual contest is unreadable without the stakes, rivalries, and conventions that make it the act it is.
This sourceAdapts Ryle's term and the wink/tic example to argue that ethnography must record the layers of context that make an act's meaning recoverable.
- Ethnography — the canonical site (Ryle's distinction, Geertz's elaboration): an event such as a ritual contest is unreadable without the stakes, rivalries, and conventions that make it the act it is.
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