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Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture

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Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture

Abstract/Description

In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.

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Date

Pages

3-30

Publisher

Basic Books

Resource type

Research/Scholarly Media

Medium

Print

Background/context type

Conceptual

Open access/free-text available

No

Peer reviewed

No

ISBN

978-0-465-03425-3

Citation

Geertz, C. (1973). Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture. In Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (pp. 3–30). Basic Books.

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