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                                                                                    <journal-title>YAZIT Kültür Bilimleri Dergisi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2757-8437</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2792-0240</issn>
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                    <publisher-name>TOKÜAD-Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Derneği</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.59902/yazit.1321431</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Anthropology (Other)</subject>
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                                                            <subject>Antropoloji (Diğer)</subject>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>Clifford Geertz&#039;s Approach to Interpretational Anthropology and Cultural Relativity and Critics</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>Clifford Geertz&#039;in Yorumlayıcı Antropoloji ve Kültürel Görecelik Pratiği Yaklaşımı ve Yapılan Eleştiriler</trans-title>
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                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2393-508X</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Bazancir</surname>
                                    <given-names>Recai</given-names>
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                                                                    <aff>YÜZÜNCÜ YIL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, ÖZALP MESLEK YÜKSEKOKULU, SAĞLIK PROGRAMLARI BÖLÜMÜ</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20231225">
                    <day>12</day>
                    <month>25</month>
                    <year>2023</year>
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                                        <volume>3</volume>
                                        <issue>2</issue>
                                        <fpage>225</fpage>
                                        <lpage>241</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20230701">
                        <day>07</day>
                        <month>01</month>
                        <year>2023</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20230825">
                        <day>08</day>
                        <month>25</month>
                        <year>2023</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2021, YAZIT Journal of Cultural Sciences</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>YAZIT Journal of Cultural Sciences</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>We believe that one of the important contributions of anthropology to humanity is to present some ways which help to understand the “other”. Therefore, various approaches and paradigms present various epistemological and methodological ways. Some problematics and debates such as particularism versus universality, the empirical versus the theoretical- were somehow present within philosophy and science before cultural anthropology existed as a discipline. Positioning in these kinds of debates can inform us about the relation which a social/cultural scientist constitutes with the notion of culture. The cultural views of Max Weber and Franz Boas, two thinkers with particularism/cultural relativism tendencies, inspired our study. Dilthey&#039;s approach to the concept of culture is also looked at due to the relations of these thinkers with hermeneutics and the German History School, in this article the approaches of Clifford Geertz, who is mostly known for his influence on the practice of interpretive anthropology and cultural relativism. Finally, some criticisms of cultural relativism in terms of reflexive anthropology have been made by us, focusing particularly on Geertz&#039;s approach.</p></abstract>
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                            <p>Antropolojinin insanlığa önemli katkılarından birinin, “öteki”ni anlamaya yardımcı olacak bazı yollar sunmak olduğuna inanıyoruz. Bu nedenle, çeşitli yaklaşımlar ve paradigmalar çeşitli epistemolojik ve metodolojik yollar sunmaktadır. Tikelciliğe karşı evrensellik, ampirik olana karşı teorik gibi bazı sorunsallar ve tartışmalar, kültürel antropoloji bir disiplin olarak var olmadan önce felsefe ve bilim içinde bir şekilde mevcuttu. Bu tür tartışmalarda konumlanmak, bir sosyal/kültürel bilimcinin kültür kavramıyla kurduğu ilişki hakkında bizi bilgilendirebilmektedir. Tikelcilik/kültürel görecelilik eğilimleri olan iki düşünür Max Weber ve Franz Boas&#039;ın kültürel görüşleri çalışmamıza ilham kaynağı olmuştur. Dilthey&#039;in kültür kavramına yaklaşımı, bu düşünürlerin hermenötik ve Alman Tarih Okulu ile olan ilişkileri nedeniyle, bu makalede, çoğunlukla yorumlayıcı antropoloji ve kültürel görecelilik pratiği üzerindeki etkisiyle tanınan Clifford Geertz&#039;in yaklaşımları nedeniyle de incelenmektedir. Son olarak, kültürel göreceliliğin refleksif antropoloji açısından bazı eleştirileri, özellikle Geertz&#039;in yaklaşımına odaklanarak tarafımızdan yapılmıştır.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>anthropology</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Clifford Geertz</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  cultural relativity</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Wilhelm Dilthey</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  hermeneutics</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>antropoloji</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Clifford Geertz</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  kültürel görecelik</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Wilhelm Dilthey</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  hermenötik</kwd>
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