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Clifford Geertz Explained: Culture, Symbols, Thick Description, and the Interpretation of Human Behavior

Clifford Geertz Explained: Culture, Symbols, Thick Description, and the Interpretation of Human Behavior

Atlas, The Practical

Paperback

Series: Half Hour Help Social Science and Anthropology

Anthropology

ISBN13: 9798172126628
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 5 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Clifford Geertz Explained: Culture, Symbols, Thick Description, and the Interpretation of Human Behavior introduces one of anthropology's most widely read interpreters of culture with a focus on the ideas and case studies that made his work matter. Geertz argued that human behavior cannot be understood by listing rules, instincts, or social functions alone. People live inside shared systems of meaning, and those meanings shape how they joke, pray, celebrate, obey, compete, and display status. This book explains that argument in plain language, showing why Geertz treats culture as something public, symbolic, and interpretive rather than hidden inside the mind or reducible to biology or statistics.

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