 | Giles Gunn - 1979 - 265 pages
...interpretive sciences generally, are not measured by the spread of consensus but by the refinement of the debate. "What gets better is the precision with which we vex each other."5 Notes Introduction 1. The Life of the Drama (New York: Atheneum, 1967). 2. The Secular Scripture... | |
 | David D. Laitin - 1986 - 266 pages
...interpretations to their verification, and instead of the cumulative development of theory he seeks the "refinement of debate. What gets better is the precision with which we [anthropologists] vex each other." For Cohen, good theory can be verified or disconfirmed; for Geertz,... | |
 | Rudolph Nelson - 2002 - 272 pages
...writings in Part Two. Clifford Geertz says that interpretive anthropology "is a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...gets better is the precision with which we vex each other."20 I am not doing interpretive anthropology, but if this study of Edward Carnell makes a contribution... | |
 | David Garland - 1993 - 326 pages
...more productive. As Clifford Gcertz says of" cultural anthropology, it 'is a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...better is the precision with which we vex each other.' C. Geertz, 'Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory ofCulture', in id. The Interpretation... | |
 | Margaret Himley - 1991 - 241 pages
..."Blurred Genres") Anthropology, or at least interpretive anthropology, is a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...better is the precision with which we vex each other. (Geertz, "Thick Description") I started thinking, really thinking, about children writing in 1979,... | |
 | Bill Nichols - 1991 - 340 pages
...Geertz comments, "Anthropology, or at least interpretative anthropology, is a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...better is the precision with which we vex each other" (and ourselves, it might be added).17 The sacramental is a term used here to describe those practices... | |
 | Mark A. Schneider - 1993 - 246 pages
...con testable." Anthropology, or at least interpretive anthropology, is a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...better is the precision with which we vex each other. Vexing one's colleagues is of course a great academic pleasure, but it is odd in this context to find... | |
 | Michael Martin, Lee C. McIntyre - 1994 - 818 pages
..."essentially contestable." Anthropology, or at least interpretive anthropology, is a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...better is the precision with which we vex each other. This is very difficult to see when one's attention is being monopolized by a single party to the argument.... | |
 | Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz - 1995 - 276 pages
...Geertz's (1973) position to heart when he said, "Interpretive anthropology is a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a...better is the precision with which we vex each other" (p. 29). If Geertz is right, the most beautiful case studies are those that enrich our conversation... | |
 | David Simpson - 1995 - 218 pages
...satisfied that one knows anything at all That possibility is touched upon but laid aside in favor of "a refinement of debate What gets better is the precision with which we vex each other" (29), In other words, oddly enough, the satisfactions of localization that are no longer available... | |
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Anthropology, or at least interpretive anthropology, is a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a refinement of debate. What gets better is the precision with which we vex each other. 
