May 16, 2012
The concept of culture I espouse… is essentially a semiotic one. Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he 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 one in search of meaning.
Geertz, C. 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures, page 5. New York: Basic Books.