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Rather, the reader is left with a thick description from which any number of interpretations might be drawn.

The ethnographic data for the famous essay on Thick description was collected here.

Geertz aimed to provide the social sciences with an understanding and appreciation of "thick description."

He advocated what he called thick descriptions to interpret symbols by observing them in use.

Geertz's interpretive method involved what he called "thick description."

Thick description is an anthropological method of explaining with as much detail as possible the reason behind human actions.

His idea of "thick description" doesn't only describe anthropology's possibilities, it also limits those possibilities.

Researchers present the dialogue connected with each theme in support of increasing dependability through a thick description of the results.

Goldhagen's book was meant to be a "thick description" in the manner of Clifford Geertz.

Today, "thick description" is used in a variety of fields, including the type of literary criticism known as New Historicism.

See contextualism, thick description.

She seeks the answer in "ethnographic thick description," that is, detailed sociological analysis of NASA culture.

Geertz applied thick description to anthropological studies (specifically his own 'interpretive anthropology') while producing theory that had implications for other social sciences.

"Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture".

The book is considered to be influential within the anthropological discipline, particularly in terms of the discussion of thick description as a construct for examining social phenomena.

His early novels were under the influence of the French Nouveau roman, and were characterized by thick descriptions and anti-psychologic attitude.

Along the same lines, Stone was much fond of combining history with anthropology and offering "thick description" in the manner of Clifford Geertz.

This book, written with the editorial assistance of Linda Sand Guest, might have benefited from a thicker description of a particular school and set of individuals.

It was first performed by San Francisco's Thick Description and Golden Thread Productions in April 2005.

In general, technology dynamics studies, besides giving a "thick description" of technology development, uses constructivist viewpoints emphasizing that technology is the outcome of particular social context.

In fact, in the midst of Mr. Geertz's thick descriptions, all sorts of assumptions are made about the anthropologist's ability to render objective judgments.

A Thick Description of Thick Description.

Inspired by the work of Clifford Geertz and the conventions of "thick description," Ghodsee is a proponent of "literary ethnography."

This essay (in his classic collection, "The Interpretation of Cultures") was a demonstration of his anthropological philosophy: we come to understand another social universe through "thick description."

Complex and fertile with "thick description," "Italy and Its Discontents" radiates the paradoxes and ironies that abound in a troubled country.