Visions of Culture by Jerry D. Moore

Author:Jerry D. Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781442266667
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.

With that, Geertz turns to an examination of a bitterly contested election in Modjokuto in a section titled “A Village Election as a Social Document.” It is that approach to culture as text, first broached in The Social History of an Indonesian Town, that marked Geertz’s subsequent work.

Thick Description and Culture as Text

The course of Geertz’s approach was set out in “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture,” the introductory essay to the collection, The Interpretation of Cultures. The essay clearly and forcefully outlines Geertz’s view of culture and the nature of anthropological insights. After reviewing the multiple definitions of the word “culture,” Geertz states his own position:

The concept of culture I espouse, and whose utility the essays below attempt to demonstrate, is essentially a semiotic one. Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning. (1973:5)

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