Totalizing anthropological theories
 

Clifford, in The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (1988): "The concept of culture used by anthropologists was, of course, invented by European theorists to account for the collective articulations of human diversity. Rejecting both evolutionism and the overly broad entities of race and civilization, the idea of culture posited the existence of local, functionally integrated units. For all its supposed relativism, though, the concept's model of totality, basically organic in structure, was not different from the nineteenth-century concepts it replaced. Only its plurality was new"

> from Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology and Medical Practice (2003)

> tagged with #anthropology, #culture

> created Mar 16, 2025 at 9:02:00 AM


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