PHL * K101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Cockfight, Marginal Utility, Cultural Anthropology
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Geertz leans towards interpretativism- implicit critique of functionalism. Geertz seems to be the most important champion of interpretativism for. We see a form closer to geertz cultural anthropology- not straight forward beliefs and desires. Meaning as being the property of the individual but also of the community- intersubjective meanings- taylor"s essay. Taylor"s account seems to be a bridge to geertz. Think of culture not just as a collection of behavior, but as a text. Data and brute data are itself a text- it is already an interpretation because there is the society"s level of interpretation. There is no level beneath interpretation that is just data. How to characterize the analysis of the betting. Marginal utility- adam smith-like economics, accounts that appeal to our notion of economics- human transaction, assumption that people are rational. The sections of odds and even money are an appeal to the rationality of the agent.
