The Interpretation of Cultures

Read for Sociology work At Cambridge. Highly poetic approach to thinking about understanding culture.

Bibliographic Deets
Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. Fontana Press, London. 1973.

Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
"the winker has not done two things, contracted his eyelids and winked, while the twitcher has done only one, contracted his eyelids. Contracting your eyelids on purpose when there exists a public code in so doing counts as a conspiratorial signal is winking. That's all there is to it: a speck of behavior, a fleck of culture, and- voila- a gesture." (6)