He emphasizes that "savage" behavior is only one aspect of human behavior and that what Western society considers "uncivilized" is not. is not necessarily. Western society represents a corrupt culture, “uncivilized” societies represent a society that has not been touched by Western ideals. What Strauss means is that “savage” societies have logical thinking, just like Western societies. Geertz argues that instead of looking to societies untouched by Western civilization to understand primordial man, the anthropologist should look to deeper theoretical systems. A relevant idea for Geertz's argument is the structuralism of Lévi-Strauss, to emphasize this point Geertz uses the people of Bali as a