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Title:

Understanding Daily Reality in Clifford Geertz’s Interpretive Anthropology

Subject and Keywords:

Clifford Geertz   culture   daily reality   interpretive anthropology   symbolic system   understanding

Abstract:

The paper looks at the problem of understanding daily reality, which presents a challenge for the humanities, arts and social sciences today. The problem can be considered from two perspectives: first, as a problem relating to the method, interpretation, observation, study of daily reality; and second, as a problem or a question that every individual entangled in and belonging to daily reality can put to themselves, i.e. how to understand oneself in the context of one’s own daily reality? The answer to the question about possible access to daily reality is based on the assumption that that access requires understanding which is a complex mental operation performed by a researcher and susceptible of being performed by every individual. The paper discusses understanding of daily reality with reference to the ideas of contemporary cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz. The cultural anthropology solutions Geertz proposed can both provide a methodological basis for conceptualising understanding of individuals or social groups under study, and prove useful in the individual’s reflection and deliberation on themselves.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2017

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

ISBN 978-83-62618-24-8

DOI:

10.34616/22.19.187

Language:

pol

Relation:

Codzienność jako wyzwanie edukacyjne, T.1, s. 30-43.

Rights holder:

Copyright by Grażyna Lubowicka

Location of original object:

Biblioteka Instytutu Pedagogiki UWr

Autor opisu:

h.w.