This anthropologist used the example of a boy's funeral to show how the mixing of religious and political symbols is problematic in his article, Ritual and Social Change.
This anthropologist used the example of a boy's funeral to show how the mixing of religious and political symbols is problematic in his article, Ritual and Social Change. He was greatly influenced by Wittgenstein's attack of the idea of private language, and Weber's interpretative social science, as seen in his Agricultural Involution and Peddles and Princes. He wrote that culture is the "webs of significance" spun by man, and that "culture is public, because meaning is". Both of these appear in a book that discusses this man's method of ethnography, Thick Description. He says that the title practice is "use of emotion for cognitive ends" in Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, which appears in his most famous collection. For 10 points, name this author of The Interpretation of Cultures.
This anthropologist used the example of a boy's funeral to show how the mixing of religious and political symbols is problematic in his article, Ritual and Social Change.
Clifford {Geertz}