This anthropologist analyzed the intertwining of religious and political symbols in a boy's funeral to argue against a static functionalist approach in his essay "Ritual and Social Change." He analyzed patterns of entrepreneurship in two towns and arrived at six generalizations about economic growth in another study, Peddlers and Princes. He critiqued Claude Lévi-Strauss's reliance on "universal rationalism," arguing that like Rousseau he was interested in not men but Man, in a chapter entitled "The Cerebral Savage." Another of his essays notes that a certain double entendre exists both in English and in the native language in question. That essay exemplifies a metho
This anthropologist analyzed the intertwining of religious and political symbols in a boy's funeral to argue against a static functionalist approach in his essay "Ritual and Social Change." He analyzed patterns of entrepreneurship in two towns and arrived at six generalizations about economic growth in another study, Peddlers and Princes. He critiqued Claude Lévi-Strauss's reliance on "universal rationalism," arguing that like Rousseau he was interested in not men but Man, in a chapter entitled "The Cerebral Savage." Another of his essays notes that a certain double entendre exists both in English and in the native language in question. That essay exemplifies a methodological concept he borrowed from a lecture that distinguishes between an involuntary twitch and a conspiratorial wink, given by Gilbert Ryle. For 10 points, name this American anthropologist who advocated "thick description" in such essays as "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight," included in his book The Interpretation of Cultures
This anthropologist analyzed the intertwining of religious and political symbols in a boy's funeral to argue against a static functionalist approach in his essay "Ritual and Social Change."
Clifford James Geertz