![]() ![]() While Geertz seems to be more concerned with understanding culture according to native competence in the native semiotic milieu, I think there is certainly room for analysis of the unconscious side of culture- though it is true that there is a lot of room for abuse in that area. ![]() While I admit that Dundes has a tendency to get a bit extreme in his analysis, I thought he made a very good case for his own reading. ![]() Dundes, of course, takes a hard-line Freudian approach in contrast to Geertz' "symbolic analysis". My late professor Alan Dundes edited a casebook on the Balinese Cockfight which I hope to read (I've heard a presentation on it). ![]() I believe the latter is one of his best known examples of his "Thick Description" in practice. (Macat Library) Abena Dadze-Arthur - An Analysis of Clifford Geertz’s the Interpretation of Cultures Selected Essays-Macat International (2017) - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The most important sections would be (I believe) his introductory essay, "Thick Description: Toward and Interpretive Theory of Culture" and "Notes on a Balinese Cockfight". I've read a couple of essays in this book before, and figured that I should reread them, considering how seminal Geertz has been in my own field, and how influential at my university (for example, his influence on the early New Historicists). ![]()
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