Clifford Geertz

Clifford Geertz and the Assembly of a Critical Anthropological Project

Carlos del Cairo delcairo@email.arizona.edu University of Arizona, USA Jefferson Jaramillo Marín jefferson.jaramillo@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: Beginning in the mid-1960s, anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) transformed the conventions of writing ethnography. His anthropological project, named symbolic, hermeneutic or interpretative anthropology, was in continuous flux as he elaborated it. According to some, the Geertzian intellectual project was […]

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