Imagining Cultures Rethinking Disciplines: A Conference on Anthropology and the Humanities Part 4

Part 4

The concept of culture has become a vexed issue for the social science disciplines and the humanities. The "literary turn" in anthropology has focused attention on the conventions and politics of ethnographic representations, even as novelists and historians have been exploring ethnographic approaches in their writings, and claimed a share in the production of knowledge about peoples. Moreover, "culture" has been conceptualized in different ways across diverse disciplines and in different social-political contexts. In an age of globalization, non-Western and non-academic concepts of culture challenge the Eurocentrism of the traditional human sciences. This conference encourages examination of the ways that an international perspective on the idea of culture unsettles the borders and status of disciplinary formations.

Roundtable discussion with Dipesh Chakrabarty (Chicago), Mabel Morana (Washington-St. Louis), and Erna Brodber. Moderated by George Yudice (UMiami).

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Education

Tags:

• roundtable
• anthropology
• humanities
• conference
• miami
• university of miami
• center for the humanities
• academic
• scholars
• dipesh chakrabarty
• mabel morana
• george yudice
• erna brodber
• discussion
• 2011