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On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification

By Allen Chun

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2019
ISBN
9781789202045
DOI
10.1515/9781789202045
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
641 kB (656596 bytes)
Series
Loose Can(n)ons; 4
Pages
174\174
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 03:52:01

Description

On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification explores the discursive spaces of our speaking position, or what has routinely been referred to in the literature as the poetics and politics of writing culture. At issue here are its problematic underlying notions of cultural identity, authorial subjectivity and postcolonial critique. Contrary to the widespread assumption that cultural studies and the social sciences share a common discourse of culture and society, Allen Chun argues that 'modern' disciplinary practices and axioms have in fact produced inherently incompatible theories. Anthropology's ethical relativism has also created obstacles for a critical theory of culture and society.

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