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Is that a wink, a twitch, or someone pretending to wink? Clifford Geertz built a whole way of studying people out of questions like that, and this is a friendly guide to it: thick description, religion as a cultural system, the Balinese cockfight and the theatre state.
It covers the backlash too. Where's the power in all this interpretation, who gets to interpret whom, and what was left once 'thick description' became a buzzword? And it asks a newer question as well: what can a human interpreter see that an algorithm can't?
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (147 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.
Is that a wink, a twitch, or someone pretending to wink? Clifford Geertz built a whole way of studying people out of questions like that, and this is a friendly guide to it: thick description, religion as a cultural system, the Balinese cockfight and the theatre state.
It covers the backlash too. Where's the power in all this interpretation, who gets to interpret whom, and what was left once 'thick description' became a buzzword? And it asks a newer question as well: what can a human interpreter see that an algorithm can't?
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (147 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.