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Thick Description
Thick Decription
1. Susan Langer described about thick description in his book "Philosophy in a new key".
2. Gilbert Ryle Made it popular.
3. A detailed description of the ethnographic composition of a society should be given
4. Culture is the sum of human behavior
Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz
1. Clifford Geertz was the first person who used thick description in Anthropology.
2. He used thick description to know the meanings of symbol.
3. Only native people can see the culture with "Native point of view"
"Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture" is one of his article.
In this article Geertz described 4 genres
Subject to Interpretation
Thick Description
Interpretation deals with extrovert expression
Interpretive study
Ethnographic description is microscopic
Examples
Examples
Balinese Cockfight
Mazar Culture
Balinese Cockfight
"Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight"
1. Published in 1973.
2. Part of a larger work, The Interpretations of Cultures
3. Field work actually took place in 1958
Balinese Cockfight
#The fights are about social status and relationships.
#The cocks themselves represent everything evil and "animal" to the Balinese, and placed in the context of the everyday, they are a reminder of what lies beneath every man and his social status.
#Cockfighting is a metaphor of the whole practice of social life in Bali.
Beginning Fieldwork
Beginning Fieldwork...
#Geertz believed that the function of culture is to impose meaning on the world and make it understandable.
#The role of anthropologists is to try to interpret the guiding symbols of each culture.
Cockfighting... "is a story they tell themselves about themselves"
#Interpretive Anthropology: Calls for the anthropologist to understand a culture by seeing how the respective peoples interpret themselves and their own experiences
#Geertz accomplished this by incorporating himself into the culture and connecting on another level than "observer" with the locals
#Men spend a huge amount of time grooming and caring for cocks
#While feeding cocks, food is shifted for impurities with far more care than if it were "mere humans"
#Cocks are cared for in ceremonial preparation
#Cocks are symbolic expressions of their owners self
The Balinese Cockfight
Power of Strength
The Balinese Cockfight
Power of darkness
#Cockfights are illegal
#As a result of laws cockfights typically end in hiding
#This specific fight was held in the central square to draw a larger crowd and raise more money
#People under the impression bribes had been paid
#Fight was orchestrated by chief of community
#The idea of the high betting and one laying themselves on the line through the means of one's cock should only increase the irrationality, instead makes it that much more meaningful in Balinese culture
#This is to not say that money is meaningless however
#There are a set of rules that go along with cockfighting
#Some but not all include
#A man never bets against a cock owned by his own kinship
#If an outside cock comes from another village, you support the local
Mazar Culture
Mazar Culture
Male Dominance
From lower class to upper class
Dominant religious belief system
Description
Money Divided into three portions
Fear
1. Administration
2.Local Political Leader
3. Mazar Fund
Gambling
Geographical Location
Key Points
Male are representative of God
1. Male are representative of God
2. Deep play
3. Defining status
4. Who gives the legitimacy?
Relation and Critic
Male Are representative of God
#The tomb is almost always a male's
#People involved in management are male
Cockfight-Cock
God-He
Tomb-Men
Deep Play
Deep play
Play in which the stakes are so high that is, from a utilitarian stand point, irrational for man to enrich in it at all.
#Maximum 5 lakhs collection in a month in Golapshah Majar in Gulisthan.
#15 lakhs in Rupganj
Defining Status
1. Donation
2. Feast
3. Providing Iftar During Ramadan
4. Slaughtering cow/goat on occasion.
Defining status
Who Gives the Legitimacy?
Local Political Leader
Who gives the legitimacy?
Administration
Mazar Fund
Money Collection
Conclusion
Self Representation
Status
Repressed Anger, emotion
Conclusion
Close to creator and Mediator
Mean of fulfilling prayer
Thank You All
Thanks
Group D: 55,58,59,60,61,
62,64,65,66,121,122