Thick descriptions provide enough context so that a person outside the culture can make meaning of the behavior. Geertz described the practice of thick description as a way of providing cultural context and meaning that people place on actions, words, things, etc. What Geertz was saying is that anthropological writing is fiction in the sense that they are made and fashioned but they are not false. To paraphrase, they were explicating other’s explications of explications. 9) Geertz was concerned that anthropological research was more interpretive than anthropologists admitted. Clifford Geertz, the cultural anthropologist who influenced the practice of symbolic anthropology, wrote “analysis, then, is sorting out the structures of signification…and determining their social ground and import.” (Geertz, 1973, p.
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