Encountering the Postmodern: New Directions in Cultural Anthropology

Symposium issue titled "Cultural Studies in Canada: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives" 28 Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 188-205 (1991)

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Rosemary J. Coombe

York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies; York University

Date Written: 1991

Abstract

Drawing upon cultural studies literature, this article suggests that the condition of postmodernity poses new challenges to the field of cultural anthropology that go beyond (still significant) problem of ethnographic representation. Exploring the postmodernist project as one that involves a particular approach to cultural phenomena in a multinational global economy, the articles urges anthropologists to reconceive the concept of culture and explore the cultural politics of everyday life in the context of the global restructuring of capitalism.

Keywords: Postmodernity, Cultural anthropology, Global capitalism

Suggested Citation

Coombe, Rosemary J., Encountering the Postmodern: New Directions in Cultural Anthropology (1991). Symposium issue titled "Cultural Studies in Canada: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives" 28 Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 188-205 (1991), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2463361

Rosemary J. Coombe (Contact Author)

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Canada

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Canada

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