Geertz, Clifford.
(1983).
Introduction.
In Geertz, Clifford.
(1983).
Local Knowledge.
Further
essays in interpretive anthropology.
Basic Books, Inc: New York.
pp.
3-16
➢ Geertz describes the emergence of what he calls the thought-line p.
3 of...
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Geertz, Clifford.
(1983).
Introduction.
In Geertz, Clifford.
(1983).
Local Knowledge.
Further
essays in interpretive anthropology.
Basic Books, Inc: New York.
pp.
3-16
➢ Geertz describes the emergence of what he calls the thought-line p.
3 of interpretive
anthropology and its separation from the natural science aims of social scientists, partly due
to the failure to achieve scientifically acceptable results from attempting treating social
phenomena as hard science, along side the disintgration of the insular enterprise of
anthropology
I am more aware, too, … of how widely spread this thought-line – a sort of cross
between a connoisseur s weakness for nuance and an exegete s for comparison – has
become in the social sciences.
p.
3 … how has this thought-line become more widely
spread .
.
.
Ten years ago, the proposal that cultural phenomena should be treated as
significative systems posing expositive questions was a much more alarming one for
social scientists – a
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