For 10 points, name this cultural anthropologist whose The Interpretation of Cultures includes the essays "Thick Description" and "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight."
This author attacked the idea that "while we, the civilized, sort matters out analyticallyÂ… they, thesavage, wander about in a hodgepodge ofÂ… mystical participations" in "The Way We Think Now: Toward an Ethnography of Modern Thought." One of his books is divided into sections on political "Definition," "Anatomy," and "Statement" and describes the "Myth of the Exemplary Center." This author of thecollection Local Knowledge studied the (*) Theater State of 19thÂ­century Bali in his book Negara. He advocated a method that can distinguish between a twitch and a wink, which he deployed in an essay that describes the complex betting system of a blood sport broken up by the police. For 10 points, name this cultural anthropologist whose The Interpretation of Cultures includes the essays "Thick Description" and "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight."
This author attacked the idea that "while we, the civilized, sort matters out analyticallyÂ… they, thesavage, wander about in a hodgepodge ofÂ… mystical participations" in "The Way We Think Now: Toward an Ethnography of Modern Thought.
Clifford (James) Geertz ("gurts")