HENRY MONMOUTH SMITH
Biographic Data
| ID | 9242861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | HENRY MONMOUTH SMITH |
| GIVEN NAMES | HENRY MONMOUTH |
| FAMILY NAME | SMITH |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A confusion of tongues
When we maintain that an anthropologist offers `thick descriptions' of the life of people, do we mean that it is in any way descriptive? Or, instead, that it is purely interpretative, like the creative reading of a text by a literary critic? According to Gilbert Ryle, who invented the term, a `thick description' is just a `thin description' made complex by the addition of adverbial information. According to Clifford Geertz, the anthropologist has…
Charles Frederic Gerhardt
The Rt. Hon. John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh
Carl Liebermann
Albert Ladenburg
Cornelis Adriaan Lobry De Bruyn
Louis Édouard Grimaux
Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans
Michael Faraday
Carl Von Linde
August Wilhelm Hofmann
Eduard Buchner
Johann Rudolph Glauber
Henry Edward Armstrong
Henri Jules Debray
Edward Williams Morley
Jean-Francois Pilâctre De Rozier
Claude Louis Berthollet
Friedrich Knapp
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Charles Frederic Gerhardt
The Rt. Hon. John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh
Carl Liebermann
Albert Ladenburg
Cornelis Adriaan Lobry De Bruyn
Louis Édouard Grimaux
Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans
Michael Faraday
Carl Von Linde
August Wilhelm Hofmann
Eduard Buchner
Johann Rudolph Glauber
Henry Edward Armstrong
Henri Jules Debray
Edward Williams Morley
Jean-Francois Pilâctre De Rozier
Claude Louis Berthollet
Friedrich Knapp
A confusion of tongues
When we maintain that an anthropologist offers `thick descriptions' of the life of people, do we mean that it is in any way descriptive? Or, instead, that it is purely interpretative, like the creative reading of a text by a literary critic? According to Gilbert Ryle, who invented the term, a `thick description' is just a `thin description' made complex by the addition of adverbial information. According to Clifford Geertz, the anthropologist has…
Historical and Literary Studies (10 works) · Art (9 works) · History (8 works) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Historical and Literary Analyses (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Adverbial (1 work)