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American anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) attained his PhD from the exclusive Harvard School, where he implemented the interdisciplinary methodology pioneered by the institution's Team of Social Relations. Previous generations of anthropologists had imported their own value systems and culture, irrespective of which area of the world these were studying. Native ethnicities were more often than not judged to flunk in comparison to colonialists' criteria. This allowed Western capabilities to justify their coverage of colonizing overseas lands in the name of "civilizing" them. By the next fifty percent of the twentieth hundred years, however, some scholars were starting to question this Western bias in ethnic studies. Geertz's first collection of essays, The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), made him a respected tone of anthropology's "symbolic" activity, which assumed scholars should read the signs and icons of a culture from the perspective of its natives. Geertz's methodology helped anthropology reinvent itself as a technological discipline that continues to be relevant today, making him - in what of one critic - "a genuine giant of social and ethnic theory."

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Publisher	Macat International Limited.
Language	English
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DATE	2016-06
Author	Abena Dadze-Arthur

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