ABSTRACT
The Interpretation of Cultures intrigued and baffled. Tucker couldn't decide whether Clifford Geertz was a journalist, storyteller, social scientist, or philosopher. He expressed an aesthetic imagination that promoted a 'literary turn' for anthropology, but he refused any impulse to turn away from concrete public events, drift into an embrace of intuition, or let sentiments run amuck. Clearly the kind of 'empiricism' the interpretive anthropologist practices is vastly different from the positivist empiricism into which has been recruited as a graduate student. The patterns of the communication were radically transformed by her actions and his reactions to them, and they found themselves in an entirely different relationship. Skimming through the contents of the journal, Tucker arrived at a peculiarly titled article, 'Social Psychology as History'. The author was Kenneth J. Gergen, a social psychologist whose work was familiar to Tucker.
