Anthropology 4400E Chapter Notes - Chapter online reading: Nationstates, Orokaiva Language, Franz Boas
12 Nov 2017
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Anthro 4400 notes on nov 13 baskow reading. Reading: a neo-boasian conception of cultural boundaries by bashkow. A big critique of anthropology is of its sense of bounded" cultures. Criticized for its association with inequality, domination and colonialism. Author argues before cultural boundaries seen as places to be discovered but now They provide an opportunity to destabilize and deconstruct hegemonic presuppositions by exposing the cultural work that goes into representing them as natural or authoritative. The emergence of new forms of identity. Brings up the importance of boasian anthropology. Says we are much advance now in our understandings of culture. But they were highly sensitive to cultural hybridities, idiosyn- cratic identities, and translocal connections phenomena that are today held to reveal the failure of the concept of bounded culture itself. The boasians, many of whom were immigrants or feminists, grappled with complexities of identity before we did. Says boasians ideas of cultural boundaries are superior than our own.
