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Cultural Change and the 'Other'
Analytical Essay # 89708
Cultural Change and the 'Other'
An analysis of Bruce Knauft's "Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World Before and After" and the defining theme of the book about vanishing cultural diversity.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
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2006
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This paper discusses "Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World Before and After" by Bruce Knauft, which describes his return after almost two decades to the site of his early fieldwork among the Gebusi people of Papua New Guinea. The paper explains that the defining theme of Knauft's text is how radically modernity has transformed the social and cultural lives of the Gebusi. This is admittedly a controversial issue within the field of anthropology as it is within the wider society as concern over vanishing cultural diversity is critiqued as a colonial nostalgia for a fixed and eternal 'other' that bears no reference to human realities.More papers on Cultural Change and the 'Other':
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Cultural Change and the 'Other' (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Cultural-Change-and-the-'Other'/89708
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"Cultural Change and the 'Other'" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Cultural-Change-and-the-'Other'/89708>
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