Symbolic And Interpretive Anthropology Of The 1960 s And...

The 1960’s and 1970’s in both Britain and the United States found a resurgence of interest in cultural meaning, in the field of symbolic and interpretive anthropology. Symbolic and Interpretive anthropology studies the way people understand their surroundings, actions and utterance of other members of their society through the examinations of symbols. These symbols can be displayed through processes of myth and ritual and reveal how humans/social groups assign meanings to these symbols in order to address fundamental questions about human social life. Symbolic and interpretative anthropology can be divided into two major approaches, wherein, one is associated with Victor Turner and the other with Clifford Geertz. Victor Turner was a British anthropologist who studied rituals and social change particularly among the Ndembu of Zambia. 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