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Max Forte

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

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shared by Max Forte on 12 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Max Forte on 12 Nov 09
     
    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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shared by Max Forte on 05 Aug 10 - Cached
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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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