"the Hermeneutical Turn" In The Humanities; Cultural Anthropology As A Model

Abstract

 Bible, and then expanded in its modern applications, to include all human sciences such as history, sociology, anthropology, aesthetics, literary criticism, folklore... and others. The confrontation between interpretation and the humanities and social sciences at the epistemological level resulted in the forefront of the idea of "culture" in the light of postmodernism, which is witnessing qualitative shifts in the nature of human relations and perceptions of society and the individual. Interpretive anthropology emerged, in this context, through its most prominent representative, Clifford Geertz. In his book "The Interpretation of Cultures," Geertz presents a special understanding of culture that makes it the subject of interpretation, explaining that the goal of anthropology is to expand the space of human discourse in proportion to the semiotic concept of culture