Anthropologists who treat culture as a system of symbols and meanings to be read rather than a set of behaviors to be counted, including the study of ritual symbols and rites of passage and the analysis of kinship as a cultural system. A theorist belongs here when the cited article names symbolic anthropology, or symbols and ritual as the person's central work. It excludes anthropologists who explain culture through ecology or economy, who sit in their own group. Their method is close description of what people take their own actions to mean.
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Wikipedia: Clifford Geertz
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Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 - October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who was known for his influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered for three decades the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States.
Wikipedia: Victor Turner
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Victor Witter Turner (28 May 1920 - 18 December 1983) was a Scottish cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals, and rites of passage.
David M. Schneider (Wikipedia)
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David Murray Schneider (November 11, 1918, Brooklyn, New York - October 30, 1995, Santa Cruz, California) was an American cultural anthropologist, best known for his studies of kinship and as a major proponent of the symbolic anthropology approach to cultural anthropology.
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