Chapter 13, "The Cerebral Savage," is an essay on Claude Levi-Strauss, while the 15th and final chapter, "Deep Play," contains the author's notes on the Balinese cockfight.  
Its first chapter, "Thick Descriptions," adopts Gilbert Ryle's example of winking as a distinction between observation and interpretation of actions.  Borrowing Weber's notion that "man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun," the author defines the title concept as the sum of those webs, and seeks a thick description of it.  Chapter 13, "The Cerebral Savage," is an essay on Claude Levi-Strauss, while the 15th and final chapter, "Deep Play," contains the author's notes on the Balinese cockfight.  FTP, what is this 1973 anthropology work by Clifford Geertz?
Its first chapter, "Thick Descriptions," adopts Gilbert Ryle's example of winking as a distinction between observation and interpretation of actions.  
The Interpretation of Cultures