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descriptions are of cultural others. All ethnographic writing is done by a person from one standpoint writing about others living in a different standpoint. Thus, the notion of anthropologists as 'culture brokers' (see Richard Kurin) has been adopted to explain why anthropologists from any given country write about cultural others.
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states that, “it would be as great a loss to have first-world anthropologists confine their research to the first world as it is (currently) to have third-world anthropologists confine theirs to the third world”. In the 21st century, the question has been resolved by pointing out that all cultural
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A critique to anthropologists has been to question whether anthropologists may speak/write on behalf of cultural others, a point made by
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in general. Anthropologists working in this vein of inquiry seek to dissect, interpret and write cultural critiques.
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Erickson, P. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (pp.130)
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the rejection of grand, universal schemes or theories which explain other cultures (Barrett 1996).
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are influenced by the disposition of the author, should their opinions be considered scientific?
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that states a Knowledge editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic.
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skepticism towards the claims of science to producing objective and universally valid knowledge
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Geertz, C. (1973). The Interpretations of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, Inc. (pp.15)
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an emphasis on including the opinions and perspectives of the people being studied,
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One issue discussed by PM anthropologists is about subjectivity; because
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Anthropology, Development and the Post-Modernist Challenge
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Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
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Other major tenets of postmodernist anthropology are:
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