 With the interpretive turn, contextual and textual information took the lead in understanding reality, language, and culture.This was all under the assumption that a better anthropology included understanding the particular behaviors of the communities being studied.Geertz's thick description approach, along with the theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss, has become increasingly recognized as a method of symbolic anthropology, enlisted as a working antidote to overly technocratic, mechanistic means of understanding cultures, organizations, and historical settings.