Przekroczyć esencjalizm. Zwrot ku antropologii przedtekstowej i fenomenologicznej

• Authors: Tomasz Rakowski

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BEYOND ESSENTIALISM. TURNING TOWARDS PRE-TEXTUAL AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The article points to the need for transforming the notion of culture in a way that would make it more commensurate with research carried out in today’s globalising world. I believe that culture should be understood in a more functional manner, more connected with everyday practices. In this context I point to the possibility of revealing the potential of pre-textual and phenomenological ethnography. In this I draw on the phenomenological procedures of studying culture through reinterpretations, e.g. on C. Geertz’s concept of dense description and its philosophical background contained in P. Ricoeur’s works. In addition, I point to the possibility of developing anthropological interpretation not so much as text hermeneutics as action hermeneutics that uses, first of all, the procedures of direct and embodied

Keywords

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ESSENTIALISM; PRE-TEXTUAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CLIFFORD GEERTZ

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Prace Kulturoznawcze
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 12
• Pages: 191-199

Contributors

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Tomasz Rakowski