Dadze - Arthur Abena
Dadze - Arthur Abena - An Analysis Of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation Of Cultures Selected Essays - Paperback
Dadze - Arthur Abena - An Analysis Of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation Of Cultures Selected Essays - Paperback
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Description: Clifford Geertz has been called the most original anthropologist of his generation and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and approaches of anthropological interpretation that he outlined in The Interpretation of Cultures. The centrality of interpretative skills to anthropology is uncontested: in a subject that is all about understanding mankind and which seeks to outline the differences and the common ground that exists between cultures interpretation is the crucial skillset. For Geertz however standard interpretative approaches did not go deep enough and his life's work concentrated on deepening and perfecting his subject's interpretative skills. Geertz is best known for his definition of culture and his theory of thick description an influential technique that depends on fresh interpretative approaches. For Geertz cultures are webs of meaning in which everyone is suspended. Understanding culture therefore is not so much a matter of going in search of law but of setting out an interpretative framework for meaning that focuses directly on attempts to define the real meaning of things within a given culture. The best way to do this for Geertz is via thick description: a way of recording things that explores context and surroundings and articulates meaning within the web of culture. Ambitious and bold Geertz's greatest creation is a method all critical thinkers can learn from.
Title: An Analysis Of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation Of Cultures Selected Essays
Author(s): Dadze - Arthur Abena
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Barcode: 9781912127283
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 7/15/2017
Series: The Macat Library
Category: Anthropology
Description: Clifford Geertz has been called the most original anthropologist of his generation and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and approaches of anthropological interpretation that he outlined in The Interpretation of Cultures. The centrality of interpretative skills to anthropology is uncontested: in a subject that is all about understanding mankind and which seeks to outline the differences and the common ground that exists between cultures interpretation is the crucial skillset. For Geertz however standard interpretative approaches did not go deep enough and his life's work concentrated on deepening and perfecting his subject's interpretative skills. Geertz is best known for his definition of culture and his theory of thick description an influential technique that depends on fresh interpretative approaches. For Geertz cultures are webs of meaning in which everyone is suspended. Understanding culture therefore is not so much a matter of going in search of law but of setting out an interpretative framework for meaning that focuses directly on attempts to define the real meaning of things within a given culture. The best way to do this for Geertz is via thick description: a way of recording things that explores context and surroundings and articulates meaning within the web of culture. Ambitious and bold Geertz's greatest creation is a method all critical thinkers can learn from.
Title: An Analysis Of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation Of Cultures Selected Essays
Author(s): Dadze - Arthur Abena
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Barcode: 9781912127283
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 7/15/2017
Series: The Macat Library
Category: Anthropology
