Clifford Geertz's Interpretive Anthropology - Between Text, Experience and Theory

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.

List of contents

Contents: Clifford Geertz - Socio-cultural anthropology - Interpretive turn - Literary turn - Thick description - Text - Scientific discourse - Epistemology - Anthropological theory - Writing culture - Blurred genres - Polish anthropology.

About the author

Katarzyna Majbroda is Assistant Professor at the 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.

Product details

• Authors: Katarzyna Majbroda
• Assisted by: Ryszard Nycz (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783631657751
• ISBN: 978-3-631-65775-1
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 15 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Series: Cross-Roads; Cross-Roads
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Miscellaneous