German: dichte BeschreibungEnglish translation: thick description 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | German term or phrase: | dichte Beschreibung | | English translation: | thick description | | Entered by: | Kim Metzger |
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Social Sciences - Anthropology / social anthropology | | German term or phrase: dichte Beschreibung | | "dichte beschreibung" refers to a cornerstone of the theories of Clifford Geertz. Since he is an American, this phrase must exist in English. I appreciate any assistance. |
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| | thick description | Explanation:
Rosenzweig attempts to philosophically take seriously, in Clifford Geertz's now famous formulation, a "thick description" of Jewish life and practice. In Geertz's words, a thick description is "first, description of details as part of 'interworked systems of construable signs . . . within which they can be intelligibly . . . described.'
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/i6834.html
Geertz aims to provide social science with and understanding and appreciation of “thick description.” While Geertz applies thick description in the direction of anthropological study (specifically his own ‘interpretive anthropology’), his theory that asserts the essentially semiotic nature of culture has implications for the social sciences in general and, in our case, political science (and comparative political science) in particular.
http://academic.csuohio.edu/as227/spring2003/geertz.htm
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| Note from asker to answerermany thanks! Who woulda thunk it. It's just what it says. I guess sometimes a cigar is just a good smoke.
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