Question
To illustrate one ethnographic technique, this anthropologist drew on Gilbert Ryle’s example of distinguishing between a twitch and a wink. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this anthropologist who included the essay “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” in his Interpretation of Cultures.
ANSWER: Clifford Geertz [or Clifford James Geertz]
[10h] Geertz coined this term for analyzing an act with sufficient depth to understand it in its larger context.
ANSWER: thick description
[10e] Geertz compared this religion in Morocco and Indonesia in a book titled for it “Observed.” The Saudi scholar Talal Asad coined the term “discursive tradition” when considering an anthropology of this religion.
ANSWER: Islam [or al-’Islām]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| NYU B | University of Delaware B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Swarthmore B | Princeton | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland | Swarthmore A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| University of Delaware A | Rowan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |