POSTMODERNISM IN ANTHROPOLOGY question n answers graded A+

POSTMODERNISM IN ANTHROPOLOGYTime period - correct answer Late 20th century concept in the arts Postmodernism - correct answer Criticizes and represents a departure from modernism Modernism - correct answer -General distrust of grand theories and a problematic relationship with art -Often conservative, politically careful and nostalgic for lost tradition -Change was bought by political and elite leaders who believed REASON would create a just + egalitarian social order > These beliefs often led to wars and revolutions. Main tenets - correct answer 1) No unbiased knowledge - no ethnography is objective 2) Culture is a type of performance 3) Power is embedded within knowledge Driving force - correct answer behind PM was scepticism about whether ethnographers could write true social knowledge FOUCAULT - correct answer believed power to be key. Through power 'humans become the subject' GEERTZ - correct answer -Ethnography = not objective -Anthropologists use their knowledge of Western culture to compare to the society studied -All ethnography is a representation of the culture studied. Not scientific = no "all encompassing truth" -Reflects the part of the society the anthropologist is a member of not the WHOLE. -PM is fragmented > difficult to read? -'Whole truth' > who has claimed to know EVERYTHING? Ethnographic authority - correct answer -PM does not assume ethnographic authority > Does this mean you lose freedom as a writer? > Leaves room for the culture's interpretation > Harder to be misinterpreted Reflexivity - correct answer -Less scientific? -ROSALDO and headhunters rage (Llongots in Manila, Philippines) and death of wife. -Past experience can cause unintentional bias/lack of understanding. Important to acknowledge that. Criticism - correct answer Can become an interpretation of an interpretation. > Significance lost? > What's the truth?