...manipulation of culture is perhaps most dramatically described by Geertz in metaphorical form (1973: 5): Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended...not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning. It is in just this way that the work in this book sees people...

...understanding the shared meanings which inform political behavior. As Geertz expressed metaphorically, ". . . man is an animal suspended in webs of significance...not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning" (Geertz 1973, p. 5). One approach from which we can borrow important...

...as a cultural system echoes the well-known papers of Clifford Geertz. This concept of culture "... is essentially a semiotic one. Believing with Max...suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun", we must take "culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental...

...economics, and arts just as they do religion. Here Weber resonates with the anthropologist's "culture": "Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal...not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning" (C. Geertz 1973:5). Moreover, meaning is not merely the sum...

...196os no longer suffices for the study of culture. Clifford Geertz, the American anthropologist, wrote: "Believing with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended...himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs." Culture presents itself, he continued, as "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...

...once again, to Max Weber, whom Geertz paraphrases in his semeiotic definition of culture when he says that "man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun" (1973:5). I emphasize the communicative act in order to underscore the proposition that culture is...

...anthropological preoccupation with the problem of meaning. "Man," as Clifford Geertz (1973:5) reminds us, "is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun." Through these symbolic webs men and women attempt to make sense of their lives; and at times they get...

...material context much more explicitly than Geertz, who defines culture in semiotic terms: "Believing that . . . man is an animal suspended in webs of significance...not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning" (Geertz, Interpretation, p. 5). boundaries. Skilled artisan...

...persons, other signs — can be interpreted. Thus the concept of culture Geertz wishes to advance is a semiotic one. "Believing, with Max Weber, that man...not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning."8 But the interlinked system of significant signs and symbols...

...ceramics) with this definition in mind. Geertz (1973, p. 5) has described culture in semiotic terms: Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended...culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be ... an interpretive one in search of meaning. Material culture forms part of the 'webs of significance'...