Abstract
This article compares the status of "culture" as a politically engaged concept in Franz Boas's time and in our own time. Taking a Boasian approach to "neo-Boasianism," I examine the limits of this comparability in order to shed light on the nature of public culture-talk today and to identify dimensions of the Boasian concept of "culture" particularly relevant to a contemporary anthropology.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 473-487 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | American Anthropologist |
Volume | 106 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2004 |
Keywords
- Area studies
- Culture concept
- Franz Boas
- Multiculturalism
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Anthropology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)