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Max Forte

0.19: Questions about Colonialism and Anthropology: Epistemology, Methodology, and Poli... - 0 views

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    The second post in the Zero Series, this one dealing with problems and questions concerning the conceptualization of anthropology's relationship with imperialism and colonialism.
Max Forte

When I hear the word "culture"… « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY - 1 views

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    "Immanuel Wallerstein's view of "culture" is especially attuned to its politicization, as an ideological construct, and as a weapon in contemporary civilizational debates in the capitalist world-system-culture as the ideological battlefield of the modern world system, as he says. It is a view of culture that I had adopted from before I entered anthropology for the first time, as a graduate student. One of Wallerstein's favourite quotes is this: "Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun""
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