Beyond Modernity′s Meanings: Engaging the Postmodern in Cultural Anthropology

  • Coombe R
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Abstract

Drawing upon literature in cultural studies, the author argues that the concept of the postmodern challenges the discipline of cultural anthropology in a number of ways. Interpretive anthropology is a modernist enterprise — one with untenable premises and limitations that are increasingly evident in the condition of postmodernity. Exploring the intersections between culture and power in local contexts, cultural anthropologists engage the postmodern by investigating the cultural politics of everyday life.En tirant les conséquences des études culturelles, l′auteur constate que le concept du postmodernisme met à l′épreuve l′ethnologie de plusieurs manières. L′ethnologie interprétive est une entreprise de modernité — comportant des prémisses et des limitations insoutenables qui sont de plus en plus évidentes dans la condition de postmodernité. Par l′exploration des intersections entre la culture et le pouvoir dans des contextes locaux, l′ethnologie appréhende le postmoderne par une investigation des politiques culturelles de la vie quotidienne.

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Coombe, R. J. (2021). Beyond Modernity′s Meanings: Engaging the Postmodern in Cultural Anthropology. Culture, 11(1–2), 111–124. https://doi.org/10.7202/1084479ar

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