Title: Comparative Cultural Studies and Cultural Anthropology
Abstract:: In his article “Comparative Cultural Studies and Cultural Anthropology” Rik Pinxten postulates that the fields of anthropology and comparative cultural studies represent an advantageous approach to ...: In his article “Comparative Cultural Studies and Cultural Anthropology” Rik Pinxten postulates that the fields of anthropology and comparative cultural studies represent an advantageous approach to knowledge about social and cultural processes. Further, Pinxten argues that cultural anthropologists have been growing less exclusionary about the methods and the objectives of comparison and suggests that this development resulted in new epistemologies of scholarship about the “other” towards an emic-etic approach to linguistic and cultural phenomena. Pinxten postulates that cultural anthropology complements (comparative) cultural studies in a way similar to the latter's complement to the study of literature. Thus, comparative cultural studies adds a critical approach by contextualizing literature, as well as other productions of culture.Read More
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-02
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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