 | David Carroll - 1990 - 344 pages
...described his project in these terms: "culture [denned as 'interworked systems of construable signs'] is not a power, something to which social events,...it is a context, something within which they can be intelligibly—that is, thickly—described." 10 Anthropology, by this definition, was to be an interpretive... | |
 | Christopher Herbert - 1991 - 384 pages
...disclaims the idea of culture as having any capacity of effective action. "CuiNOTES TO INTRODUCTION ture is not a power, something to which social events,...institutions, or processes can be causally attributed," he says categorically, but simply "a context within which they . . . can be intelligibly . . . described"... | |
 | Steven Weiland - 1991 - 268 pages
...lies in its unique descriptive capacities. "As interworked symbols of construable signs [or symbols] culture is not a power, something to which social...events, behaviors, institutions, or processes can be casually attributed; it is a context, something within which they can be intelligibly—that is thickly—described"... | |
 | Brian Z. Tamanaha - 1993 - 230 pages
...interworked systems of construable signs (what, ignoring provincial usages, I would call symbols), culture is not a power, something to which social...it is a context, something within which they can be intelligibly—that is, thickly-described. " 87 For Geertz, "the aim of anthropology is the enlargement... | |
 | Peter Ochs - 1993 - 392 pages
...extremely small matters." "As inter-locked systems of construable signs... culture [including religion] is not a power, something to which social events,...it is a context, something within which they can be intelligibly—that is, thickly—described." Only by detailed "familiarity with the imaginative universe... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Lynn Avery Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob - 1994 - 340 pages
...was Clifford Geertz. In his wonderfully provocative essay 'Thick Description," Geertz insisted that "culture is not a power, something to which social...which they can be intelligibly — that is, thickly — described."33 Anthropology, with this emphasis on an intelligibility derived from extensive contextualization,... | |
 | Michael Martin, Lee C. McIntyre - 1994 - 818 pages
...interworked systems of construable signs (what, ignoring provincial usages, I would call symbols), culture is not a power, something to which social...which they can be intelligibly — that is, thickly — described. The famous anthropological absorption with the (to us) exotic — Berber horsemen, Jewish... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1994 - 532 pages
...of meaning' (p. 12), 'interworked systems of construable signs' or symbols (p. 14). Culture, then, 'is not a power, something to which social events,...which they can be intelligibly — that is, thickly — described' (p. 14; my italics). Cultural analysis, Geertz emphasises, is always a process of interpretation,... | |
 | Robert F. Berkhofer - 1995 - 402 pages
...put forth this term as a way of describing culture "as interworked systems of construable signs . . . culture is not a power, something to which social...institutions, or processes can be causally attributed, it is context, something within which they can be intelligibly — that is thickly — described"; p. 14.... | |
 | Charles M. Keller, Janet Dixon Keller - 1996 - 234 pages
...Geertz points out that "culture is public because meaning is" (1973:12). Geertz goes on to insist that "culture is not a power, something to which social...within which they can be intelligibly - that is thickly - described" (1973:14). Yet the work of numerous anthropologists belies the exclusivity of cognitivist... | |
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I would call symbols), culture is not a power, something to which social events, behaviors, institutions, or processes can be causally attributed; it is a context, something within which they can be intelligibly — that is. thickly — described. 
