Clifford Geertz’s Interpretive Anthropology
Between Text, Experience and Theory
Author: Katarzyna Majbroda and Ryszard Nycz Series: Cross-Roads
This book refers the voice of Polish anthropology in the Western debate on the Clifford Geertz’s interpretive anthropology. This book will show how principle categories such as text, interpretation, thick description have been absorbed by anthropological discourse, which influence theories (epistemology) and research methods in anthropology.
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This book refers the voice of Polish anthropology in the Western debate on the Clifford Geertz’s interpretive anthropology. This book will show how principle categories such as text, interpretation, thick description have been absorbed by anthropological discourse, which influence theories (epistemology) and research methods in anthropology.
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Over the last decades Clifford Geertz’ interpretive anthropology has played an important role in the field of socio-cultural anthropology. The study presents the critical reception of his thoughts in Western countries and Polish anthropology. Interpretive anthropology is based on the category of interpretation and the concept of thick description: the assumed indexical nature of reality and the possibility of unraveling its order through semiotic analysis has influenced the epistemological reflection in anthropology, the approach to theory, fieldwork and the research process.
About the Author
Katarzyna Majbroda is Assistant Professor at Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Wroclaw, Poland. Her interests include 20th literary theory, gender criticism, methodology and theories of socio-cultural anthropology and cultural critique.
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