The Interpretation of Cultures¶
Geertz, C. (1973). The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. Basic Books.
Cited by¶
3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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Mechanisms¶
- Ethnographic Observation
- … in the setting long enough that the performance for a visitor wears off and ordinary life resumes, records detailed field notes, and interprets what is seen against the local conditions rather than against an institutional category imported from outside — the interpretive stance ethnographers call thick description.
This sourceFrames thick description as interpreting observed conduct through the local structures of meaning that make it intelligible.
- … in the setting long enough that the performance for a visitor wears off and ordinary life resumes, records detailed field notes, and interprets what is seen against the local conditions rather than against an institutional category imported from outside — the interpretive stance ethnographers call thick description.
- Field Observation Debrief
- The discipline that guards it is the distinction, drawn from thick description, between recording a behavior and interpreting it: the interpretation is only as good as the insider testing behind it, and an untested meaning stays flagged as inference.
This sourceUses the observationally identical twitch and wink to distinguish recording behavior from interpreting its culturally coded meaning.
- The discipline that guards it is the distinction, drawn from thick description, between recording a behavior and interpreting it: the interpretation is only as good as the insider testing behind it, and an untested meaning stays flagged as inference.
- Scene-Setting Ledger
- It is the inventory form of what ethnographers call thick description: keeping the meaning-bearing context attached to the record so behavior stays intelligible.
This sourceDefines thick description as preserving meaning-bearing context needed to interpret observed behavior.
- It is the inventory form of what ethnographers call thick description: keeping the meaning-bearing context attached to the record so behavior stays intelligible.
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- https://search.worldcat.org/title/The-interpretation-of-cultures-%3A-selected-essays/oclc/7437887 ×1
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