


Küsimus ei ole žestis, vaid selle tähenduses (vrd Agamben, kes soovib vastupidist žesti sooritada)Īs interworked system of construable signs (what, ignoring provincial usages, I would call symbols), culture is not a power, something to which social events, behaviors, institutions, or processes can be causally attributed it is a context, someting within which they can be intelligibly – that is, thickly – described. Semiootiliselt kõneldes: tihe kirjeldus kui märgisüsteemi ja märgisüsteemide vaheliste suhete väljajoonistus konkreetses ühiskondlikus kronotoobis. What the ethnographer is in fact faced with is a multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed upon or knotted into one another, which are at once strange, irregular, and inexplicit, and which he must contrive somehow first to grasp and then to render. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
