ASPECTS OF CLIFFORD GEERTZ'S INTERPRETIVE THEORY OF CULTURE IN CULTURAL HISTORY

Abstract

Clifford Geertz's Interpretive Theory of Culture offered the field of Anthropology a necessary systematization in the face of historical inaccuracies of the concept of culture. This article aims to discuss, in theoretical, methodological and epistemological terms, the contribution of ethnographic description in other areas of the Humanities, especially in the historian's work in the field of Cultural History. For this, a dialectical bibliographic research was carried out, situating the challenges of dense description in the critical debate about the construction of academic research, as carried out by History. It was concluded that, despite the criticism of the concept of culture, the influence of anthropology does not necessarily imply a methodological transfusion, but the identification of new problems from the analysis of irregularities, inconsistencies and instability of the signifying structures.