In simple terms, Geertz implies that Anthropology is a means of interpretation. These publications attained him some widely extended attention about his ideas. Geertz’z early ideas of Anthropology as interpretation can be seen from ‘Form and Variation…’ his publications from the 1960s. After receiving his degree, he went on to study for his PhD in Harvard University where he began his studies in Social Anthropology. He attended Antioch College where he graduated with a BA in philosophy in 1950 this was after he spent time serving the US navy during World War 2. In this essay I will discuss Geertz’s ideas and beliefs which have contributed greatly to the study of Social Anthropology, and I hope to analyse his beliefs to the level which a great thinker like Geertz deserves.Ĭlifford Geertz was born in 1926 in San Francisco. One of the final things that Geertz contributes to Anthropology is his idea of ethnographic research methods. It was also important to take into account when researching this essay the important comparisons between Geertz and other anthropologists, such as Emile Durkheim and Gilbert Ryle. We will see how he studies ‘thick description’ as the underlying system of meanings of individuals and the local meanings of the person. When looking at Geertz and his work, it cannot be done without discussing his idea of ‘thick description’. He wanted to really understand what culture was all about and what it really meant, and when he had discovered this meaning he wanted to share it with the rest of the world.
He did not believe that there was such thing as social facts, so therefore we will see that Anthropology he understood as a way of interpreting people, by looking at things such as symbolism. Clifford Geertz was a man who believed that Anthropology should not be recognised as a factual science but as an interpretive science. What Geertz was trying to do by looking at symbolism was trying to break down the complexity of meanings within cultures. Geertz also took the idea of theory and came up with new ideas to develop it further. When looking at Geertz’s ideas and theories in Anthropology, some of these ideas and theories will include his theories on the web of relations and symbolism. In this essay, I will be discussing Geertz’s contributions to anthropology, and what I have interpreted these contributions as myself. How would you summarize Clifford Geertz’s contribution to the field of anthropology? Clifford Geertz I have chosen this essay on Geertz, as the information I received in class I found interesting and wanted to elaborate on the knowledge I already had. Clifford Geertz – Interpretive Anthropology Short Summary
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