On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification

We live in a transnational, multicultural world that has misunderstood many central aspects of cultural identity, from which anthropology cannot be exempt. On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification is literally about the discursive spaces of our use of language and their underlying practices. Contrary to the widespread belief that the social sciences and cultural studies share a common discourse of culture and society, Allen Chun argues that 'disciplines'… (more)

We live in a transnational, multicultural world that has misunderstood many central aspects of cultural identity, from which anthropology cannot be exempt. On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification is literally about the discursive spaces of our use of language and their underlying practices. Contrary to the widespread belief that the social sciences and cultural studies share a common discourse of culture and society, Allen Chun argues that 'disciplines' of thought have created their own 'schools' which have led to misleading assumptions. Anthropology's inability to transcend its own ethical relativism and to form new cultural theories is critiqued as Chun offers a dramatic new way forward in the discipline.