The symbolic and interpretive approach in anthropology emerged as a significant theoretical perspective that focused on understanding culture as a system of meanings, symbols, and interpretations through which human beings make sense of their social worlds. Unlike earlier anthropological approaches that emphasized social structures, evolution, or functional relationships, symbolic and interpretive anthropology examined how people create, communicate, and experience meaning in everyday life. Several classical anthropological works contributed to the development of this approach, particularly those of Clifford Geertz, Victor Turner, Mary Douglas, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Clifford Geertz is one of the most influential figures associated with interpretive anthropology. His major work, *The Interpretation of Cultures* (1973), presented culture as “webs of significance” that human beings themselves have spun. According to Geertz, the task of anthropology is not to discover universal laws of human behaviour but to interpret the meanings embedded in cultural practices. He introduced the concept of “thick description,” which involves a