Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 15:11:11 -0500
From: Eric Yost <103423.421-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Re: PLC: Global Monoculture


>It would seem that cultural anthropologists have been writing about the
>phenomena of "cultural invasion" for a long time. We all probably know how
>the introduction of a steel ax can destroy a stone-ax culture.  Cultural
>anthropology also spawned the semiotics of culture, did it not? So what's
>the diference?

Among what?

>Regards,
>Eric Yost

g

I'm looking for a clearer distinction between the ground covered by
cultural anthropology and cultural studies.  From what I've read so far, it
seems to consist in the recognition that the "participant/observer method"
of cultural anthropology is laden with so much ideological baggage it
cannot float.  Yet, methinks, if that method is bogus, from what stance
does one write culture studies? It's like Nietzsche's critique (in Twilight
of the Idols) of those who assert "the value of life" -- from what vantage
point do they survey all of life to be qualified to sum its "value"?


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