![]() ![]() ![]() Geertz continues articulating his conceptions of what it is to be human and what it is to think, both undergirded by the specificity of one’s cultural context, in his concrete analyses in later parts of the work. Part 2, consisting of two chapters on the concept of man and the concept of the mind, is particularly concerned with specificity: Geertz asserts that the power of an interpretive approach to the study of culture lies in the ability of anthropology to draw out general theory from the multifaceted, complex situations that the anthropologist at once describes and interprets. ![]() In Part 1, which consists only of one chapter, Geertz lays the groundwork for his ensuing analyses by explaining what culture is and what anthropology seeks to do as an interpretive endeavor. ![]()
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