The Promise of Particularism and the Theology of Culture: Limits and Lessons of "Neo-Boasianism" |
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Authors: | ANDREW ORTA |
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Institution: | Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 |
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Abstract: | This article compares the status of "culture" as a politically engaged concept in Franz Boas's time and in our own time. Taking a Boasian approach to "neo-Boasianism," I examine the limits of this comparability in order to shed light on the nature of public culture-talk today and to identify dimensions of the Boasian concept of "culture" particularly relevant to a contemporary anthropology. |
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Keywords: | Franz Boas multiculturalism culture concept area studies |
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