Adoption
Geertz's "thick description" approach was adopted by the sociologist Allen Scarboro, psychologist Nancy Campbell and literary critic Shirley Stave in their book Living Witchcraft: A Contemporary American Coven (1994). In Living Witchcraft, the trio examined a Wiccan coven known as Ravenswood which met in the city of Atlanta, Georgia during the early 1990s. Highlighting Geertz's influence in the opening introduction to the book, they noted their intention of not only presenting the Wiccans in a manner that they themselves would recognize, but also in a manner that would allow a "non-Witch, specifically a thinking, reflective, non-Witch" to understand what they "would experience were she or he to participate in rituals and classes at Ravenwood."
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