John McCreery wrote
At the beginning of "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture," Clifford Geertz writes...
Gilbert Ryle, from whom Geertz (with acknowledgment) got the phrase (if not the concept) of the thick/thin difference, explains it in
'The Thinking of Thoughts: What is "Le Penseur" Doing?' [a 1968 lecture] http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/CSACSIA/Vol14/Papers/ryle_1.html Robert Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html