Keywords in Rosaldo’s Culture and truth
Posted: September 2nd, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Ideas & points of view | No Comments »Culture is composed by different patterns (ideas, events, institutions and personal stories) that interact and change along the time. There is a great creativity inside the indeterminate, indefinite and not well structured social spaces.
Processual analysis analyzes culture from different point of views and studies the creativity (emotions, rithm and class consciousness) that doesn’t derive from the social structure. This means that culture is determined by the practices of people more than by predetermined structures.
Accuracy in social science (“Secondo gli antropologi cognitivi come Frake – in Rosaldo: 178 – un’etnografia dovrebbe essere una teoria del comportamento culturale in una società particolare, il cui grado di accuratezza può essere valutato in base alla possibilità che un individuo estraneo alla cultura descritta utilizzi le affermazioni dell’etnografia come istruzioni per aspettarsi con buone ragioni lo svolgimento delle scene che si svolgono nella società studiata”).
Researcher as situated subject.
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