Talk:Thick description

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Sadly, this page says nothing at all about what thick description is. The argument about semantics needing context (repeated at indexicality, really) is nothing like specific enough. Certainly some historians find thick description a useful working concept, for other reasons.

Charles Matthews 10:38, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)