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1 From The Interpretation of Cultures Selected Essays by clifford Geertz Basic Books, Inc., Publishers NEW YORK 1973 Chapter 2 THE IMPACT OF THE CONCEPT OF culture ON THE CONCEPT OF MAN I Toward the end of his recent study of the ideas used by tribal peoples, La Pens e Sauvage, the French anthropologist L vi-Strauss remarks that scientific explanation does not consist, as we have been led to imagine, in the reduction of the com-plex to the simple. Rather, it consists, he says, in a substitu-tion of a complexity more intelligible for one which is less.
The Interpretation of Cultures Selected Essays by Clifford Geertz Basic Books, Inc., Publishers NEW YORK ©1973 Chapter 2 THE IMPACT OF THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE ON THE CONCEPT OF MAN I Toward the end of his recent study of the ideas used by tribal peoples, La Pensée Sauvage, the French anthropologist Lévi-
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