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Why do functionalist anthropologists frequently compare cultures to biological organisms?
 
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What does Clifford Geertz mean by saying that culture is like a novel?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

This organic analogy best shows how parts work together for the benefit of the whole and how changes in one part can affect the whole system.

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He is an interpretive anthropologist and believes that culture is a system of meaning and that cultural anthropology should be the process of interpreting the meanings of cultural acts. For Geertz, culture is a series of events or chapters that together to form an understanding of who we are.


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