This thinker distinguished between theories about the actual world, or "models of," and theories about theoretical worlds, or "models for.
This thinker distinguished between theories about the actual world, or "models of," and theories about theoretical worlds, or "models for." This social scientist described the "Doctrine of the Exemplary Center" in a book which uses the figures of Lyusi and Kalidjaga to represent different forms of religious belief. This anthropologist defined descriptions of cultural events that use the particular language of those events as "local knowledge." He argued that anthropological relativism is based on data and warned against retreating into provincialism in his lecture "Anti-Anti-Relativism." This anthropologist defined religion as a "system of symbols" in Religion as a Cultural System, and used Gilbert Ryle's example of the distinction between an involuntary twitch and a deliberate wink to illustrate his concept of "thick description." For 10 points, name this anthropologist who used the Balinese cockfight to explain his concept of "deep play."
This thinker distinguished between theories about the actual world, or "models of," and theories about theoretical worlds, or "models for.
Clifford Geertz