Biography of Clifford Girts

Any problem has a solution to GIRC CLIFFORD. Books online Clifford James Girts Hertz, Clifford James Geertz, August 23, San Francisco-October 30, Philadelphia-American anthropologist and sociologist, founder of symbolic and interpretative anthropology, studying various cultures and the influence of the concept of culture on a human concept. A member of the US National Academy of Sciences during World War II in the years served in the Navy.

In the year, he received a bachelor of the humanities in philosophy at Antioh College. In the year at Harvard University, under the scientific leadership of Tolkott Parsons, he received a doctors of philosophy of defending a dissertation on the topic “Modzhokuto religion: the study of the ritual and faith in a difficult society”. In the year he began teaching at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Chicago.

In the years - a professor of social sciences, then Emerit at the Institute of Promising Research. The main works are devoted to traditional religions and cultures of Southeast Asia and North Africa, elements of tradition in the modern world. He collaborated with Edward Shilz and Tolkott Parsons, from whom he studied at Harvard, was close to structural functionalism in the study of societies and religious systems of R.

Bella and others. However, the subject of his scientific interest was primarily the symbolic aspects of the collective action of the custom, ritual, holiday, social movements in his connection with the common views of man on the world and a kind of “ethical” attitude to the world. GIRC became the founder of “symbolic” or “interpretative” anthropology, developing in this regard the approaches of hermeneutics, the analytical philosophy of the language.

The fame was gained by a series of generalizing articles of the Trigent “Religion as a cultural system”, “Ideology as a cultural system”, “Art as a cultural system” and “common sense as a cultural system”. His empirical works - a monograph about the cocks of the Balinese “deep game”, the article “Personality, Time and Bali behavior” and a number of others - became a scientific classic.

He popularized the method of “rich description” in the humanities. Influenced the social sciences of the late XX century, of the whole circle of disciplines studying culture, in particular, the formation of the school of new historicism by Stephen Greenblatt. Laureate of the National Prize of Criticism for the book "Works and Life: Anthropologist as an author." The works of the target are translated into many languages, including Russian, Turkish and Chinese, are included in the curricula of universities.

Books 3 Library Section: Sociology from the point of view of a hirz, ethnography - this is not an “experimental science engaged in the search for the law”, but the science “interpretative, busy searching for significance”. The GIRC opposed the interpretative anthropology of the Dark Sciences Dark Sciences.