Posing a powerful challenge to dominant trends in cultural
analysis, this book covers the whole history of the concept of
culture, providing the broadest study of this notion to date.
Johnson and Michaelsen examine the principal methodological
strategies or metaphors of anthropology in the past two decades
(embodied in works by Edward Said, James Clifford, George Marcus,
V. Y. Mudimbe, and others) and argues that they do not manage to
escape anthropologyas grounding in representational practices. To
the extent that it remains a practice of representation,
anthropology, however complex, critical, or self-reflexive, cannot
avoid objectifying its others.Extending beyond a critique of
anthropology, the book reads the twinned notions of the human and
culture across the long history of the human sciences broadly
conceived, including anthropology, cultural studies, history,
literature, and philosophy. Although there is no chance, they
argue, for a anewa anthropology that would not repeat the old
anthropologyas problem of disciplining the other, they also
recognize that there may be no way out of anthropology. We are
always writing, thinking, and living in anthropologyas wake, within
its specific compass or horizon. Moreover, they demonstrate, we
have been doing so for a very long time, since at least the
beginning of the institution of philosophy in Plato and Aristotle.
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