Symbolic anthropology - Wikipedia
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 …
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropologies – Anthropology
Symbolic anthropology views culture as an independent system of meaning deciphered by interpreting key symbols and rituals (Spencer 1996:535). There are two major premises …
3.8: Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology - Social Sci LibreTexts
2020年11月17日 · Therefore, the goal of Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology is to analyze how people give meanings to their reality and how this reality is expressed by their cultural …
Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism | Anthropology | MIT OpenCourseWare
We understand our world and shape our lives in large part by assigning meanings to objects, beings, and persons; by connecting things together in symbolic patterns; and by creating …
Symbolic Anthropology - (Intro to Anthropology) - Fiveable
Symbolic anthropology emphasizes the role of language, rituals, and other symbolic systems in the construction and transmission of cultural meaning. It views culture as a system of shared …
Clifford Geertz | Cultural theorist, Interpreter of cultures, Symbolic ...
Clifford Geertz was an American cultural anthropologist, a leading rhetorician and proponent of symbolic anthropology and interpretive anthropology. After service in the U.S. Navy in World …
On not understanding symbols : Toward an anthropology of ...
The symbolic systems of a community are structured, as it were, in layers—from outer, transparent, meanings down to inner ones, access to which requires increasing degrees of …
(PDF) Symbolism in Anthropology - ResearchGate
2015年12月31日 · This article explores the importance of symbolism in anthropology, noting its role in the development of a ‘school’ of symbolic anthropology in the 1960s and 1970s, and …
Symbolic anthropology : a reader in the study of symbols and …
2020年12月21日 · Symbolic anthropology Publisher New York : Columbia University Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language …
The Affectiveness of Symbols: Materiality, Magicality, and the …
By meshing their language with that of classic symbolic anthropology, I demonstrate how the materiality of symbols produces and transmits affect and that, indeed, the efficacy of ritual is …