...imaginative interpretation of actors' interpretations, where the observer is faced with 'a multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed...irregular, and inexplicit, and which he must contrive somehow first to grasp and then to render'. It is 'like trying to read (in the sense of "construct...

...description."3 Geertz employs the term to signify an investigator's attempt to unravel a culture's "multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed...which are at once strange, irregular, and inexplicit." In The Interpretation of Cultures, he makes it clear that a "conceptual structure" is a unit resulting...

...articulating a new model of anthropology.24 'Thick description' seeks to outline 'the multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed...another, which are at once strange, irregular, and inexplicit'.25 For Geertz, human behaviour represents a dense signalling system which can only be comprehended...

...ethnography is 'thick description': What the ethnographer is in fact faced with ... is a multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed...irregular and inexplicit, and which he must contrive somehow first to grasp and then to render ... Doing ethnography is like trying to read ... a manuscript...

...explains that apart from routinized data collection, what the ethnographer faces is "a multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed...once strange, irregular and inexplicit, and which we must contrive somehow first to grasp and then to render" (1C, 10). While he recognizes the similarity...

...What we face in our studies of communication is the consistent challenge to untangle "a multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed...once strange, irregular., and inexplicit and which he (the st"deni) must contrive somehow first to grasp and then to render" (Geertz, 1973: 10). To repeat,...

...we are faced with a situation similar to the one summarized by Clifford Geertz as a "multiplicity of conceptual structures, many of them superimposed upon or knotted into one another, that are at once strange, irregular and inexplicit, and that the ethnographer must contrive somehow...

...linked to the conception of the culture to be observed. If culture is conceived of as 'a multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed...once strange, irregular and inexplicit, and which [the ethnographer] must contrive somehow first to grasp and then to render ..." (p. io), then 'Right...

...involuntary gestures (a twitch) and conspiratorial signals (a wink); disentangling "a multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed...which are at once strange, irregular, and inexplicit" (phrases which coincidentally replicate Levy's critique of the Chronicles). All of these types of interpretation...

...theologian needs to explicate "is a multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed or knotted into one another, which are at once strange, irregular and inexplicit, and which he [or she] must contrive somehow first to grasp and then to render." In rendering the salient features,...