![]() He illustrates this distinction with the difference between a wink and a twitch. Anthropology requires ‘thick description’, which is to say, the anthropologist strives to express his or her understanding of cultural activity as something meaningful ( Geertz 1973, p. That, following the philosopher Gilbert Ryle, he terms ‘thin description’. Yet description cannot be of mere physical behaviour. His central, and surprisingly bold, claim is that anthropology concerns the description of the activities and events of small social groups. ![]() He has championed interpretative approaches to the study of cultures. ![]() Clifford Geertz’s (1926- 2006) work defined the field of interpretive social science, and he is regarded as one of the most influential and widely cited American cultural anthropologists of the second half of the twentieth century. ![]()
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