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In the fields of anthropology, sociology, religious studies,and human and organizational development,a thick description of a human behavior is one that explains not just the behavior, but its context as well, such that the behavior becomes meaningful to an outsider.Today,  "thick description"  is used in a variety of fields, including the type of literary criticism known as New Historicism.Recent developments in cultural anthropology view culture as an amalgamation of the distinctive sets of signifying systems.Clifford Geertz calls it  'thick description' .In the light of New Historicism, it examines a cultural production in order to discover the meanings of that cultural event as well as the social conventions that were responsible for the production of that event. It views historical issues through a human ' lens' .It is a close reading to discover within the overall cultural system, the network of conventions, codes, and modes of thinking with which the p...