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anthropology'.Culturalanthropology
rejectstheethnocentristassumptions
builtintomuchanthropological
enquiryandattemptstoreachan
understandingofaculture(asinthe
caseofGeertz'sfieldworkstudiesin
IndonesiaandNorthAfrica)rather
thanjustprovideadescriptionofit.
Geertzisconcernedtointerpret
culturesthroughastudyofthecon-
textsinwhichhumanactionsoccur
suchthattheybecomeendowedwith
meaning.Thisishisso-called'thick
description'asoutlinedinhishighly
influentialbookThelnterpretationof
Cultures(1973)inparticularinthe
essay'ThickDescription:Towards
anInterpretiveTheoryofCulture'.
'Thindescription'ontheotherhand
failstoprovideanyrealinterpre-
tationofthecultureinquestionbut
contentsitselfwithcataloguingits
objectivefeatures.Thestructuralist
anthropologyofClaude
Levi-
Strausswithitsdesiretofind
commonobjectivefeaturesacross
cultureswouldbeanexampleofthe
lattertype.
Geertzisanti-ethnocentristbeliev-
ingthatanthropologicalenquiryall
tooofteninvolvesanimplicitassump-
tionofthesuperiorityoftheanthro-
pologist'sowncultureoratthevery
leastuseshis/herowncultureasa
referencepointtoexplainhow
otherculturesoperate.Thisanti-
ethnocentrismwithitsinsistencethat
noonecultureshouldbeprivilegedin
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