This book refers the voice of Polish anthropology in the Western debate on the Clifford Geertz’s interpretive anthropology. This book will show how principle categories such as text, interpretation, thick description have been absorbed by anthropological discourse, which influence theories (epistemology) and research methods in anthropology.

Katarzyna Majbroda is Assistant Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Wroclaw, Poland. Her interests include 20th literary theory, gender criticism, methodology and theories of socio-cultural anthropology and cultural critique.

Contents: Clifford Geertz – Socio-cultural anthropology – Interpretive turn – Literary turn – Thick description – Text – Scientific discourse – Epistemology – Anthropological theory – Writing culture – Blurred genres – Polish anthropology.