...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...himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive...

...understanding the shared meanings which inform political behavior. As Geertz expressed metaphorically, ". . . man is an animal suspended in webs of significance...himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive...

...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...himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive...

...approach the most promising. This approach defines culture as systems of shared symbols and meanings. "Believing with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended...himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretative...

...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...

...objective was to understand the culture. These objectives were summarised by Geertz in the following way: Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended...himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretative...

...material context much more explicitly than Geertz, who defines culture in semiotic terms: "Believing that . . . man is an animal suspended in webs of significance...himself has spun. I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive...

...signs — can be interpreted. Thus the concept of culture Geertz wishes to advance is a semiotic one. "Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal...himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive...