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{{Expand German|Interpretative Ethnologie|date=April 2014}}{{Anthropology |social/cultural}}Symbolic anthropology or, more broadly, symbolic and interpretive anthropology, is the study of cultural symbols and how those symbols can be used to gain a better understanding of a particular society. It is often viewed in contrast to cultural materialism.{{by whom|date=December 2012}}{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} According to Clifford Geertz, "[b]elieving, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning".[1]Prominent symbolic anthropologists include Clifford Geertz, David Schneider, Victor Turner and Mary Douglas.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} Key publications - Geertz, Clifford (1973) The interpretation of cultures, Basic Books, New York
- Geertz, Clifford. (Ed.) (1974) Myth, symbol, and culture, W. W. Norton, New York
- Sahlins, Marshall (1976) Culture and practical reason, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Schneider, David (1968) American kinship: A cultural account. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey
- Turner, Victor (1967) The forest of symbols: Aspects of Ndembu ritual, Cornell University Press, Ithaca
- Turner, Victor (1974) Dramas, fields and metaphors: Symbolic action in human society, Cornell University Press, Ithaca
See also- Collective unconscious
- Interpretive sociology
- Max Weber
- Semiotic anthropology
References1. ^{{cite book |last=Geertz |first=Clifford |title=The Interpretation of Cultures |year=1973 |publisher=Basic Books |pages=5}}
External links- "Symbolic and interpretive anthropologies", Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama, retrieved March 13, 2013
- Culture and Public Action: Symbolic anthropology
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