Postmodernismo y Modernidad

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POSTMODERNISMO Y MODERNIDAD

INTRODUCCION

El Postmodernismo describe la filosofía del examinar la naturaleza del significado y del conocimiento, aunque muchos académicos en varios campos han debatido sobre su definición precisa. Los postmodernistas cuestionan la validez de la fe en la ciencia y el racionalismo que se originó durante el Ilustramiento y que comenzó a estar asociada con la filosofía conocida como el modernismo. También cuestionan si la antropología es, o debería ser una ciencia. Ya que todo el conocimiento está necesariamente moldeado por la cultura, ellos argumentan, los antropólogos no pueden ser objetivos en su investigación.

En respuesta a este argumento, algunos antropólogos han comenzado simplemente a estudiar y escribir sobre los efectos de la influencia de la cultura en su propia perspectiva, y en la perspectiva del resto de las personas. A pesar de que mucho de este trabajo se realiza aún en los departamentos de antropología, se ha convertido también en un área particular de la investigación conocida como estudios culturales. Algunos ven a los estudios culturales como una nueva disciplina, separada de la antropología. Otros se refieren a estos como la fase más novedosa de la teoría antropológica.

Los críticos de la antropología tradicional la ven como una forma de colonialismo y de explotación. Esta noción ha ganado terreno a raíz de que los antropólogos han estudiado la historia de su propia disciplina y reexaminado la relación entre el desarrollo de la antropología y el colonialismo. Más aún, la antropología tradicional ha estado siempre dominada por las ideas, investigación y escritos de los Europeos y Americanos blancos.

Esto también está cambiando a medida que un mayor número de personas de diversos antecedentes culturales están laborando en la antropología y los estudios culturales.

Los investigadores trabajando con estudios culturales también han redefinido lo que es la cultura. Tienden a ver la cultura como algo que la gente negocia continuamente entre sí, en vez de algo que comparten. Esta visión le hace sentido a una generación de antropólogos que crecieron en la década del 60 en los Estados Unidos y Europa. Durante este tiempo, la gente joven retaba las tradiciones culturales de sus padres y cuestionaban problemas tan importantes como el racismo, el sexismo y la violencia de las guerras modernas. También ...

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...ronteras y las determinaciones de la nación. Hacer sentido de este fenómeno global contemporáneo requiere el estudio de algo más allá que el espacio limitado de la nación, y las teorías sociales deben ser reformuladas siguiendo el paso de este nuevo mundo sin territorios.

Bibliography:

Appadurai, Arjun. 2000. Globalization: Public Culture: Society for Transnational Cultural Studies. Duke University Press.

Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Public Worlds,V.1). Minneapolis: Minessota University Press.

Buitrago Ortiz, Carlos y Eva Villalón Soler. Transnacionalismo y fragmentación: Un acercamiento a trabajadores agrícolas migrantes mexicanos. Río Piedras, Universidad de Puerto Rico.

Deleuze, Gilles y Félix Guattari.1987. A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Habermas, Jurgen. 1990. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. MIT Press.

Jameson, Frederic y Masao Miyoshi. 1998. The Cultures of Globalization. Duke University Press.

Kearney, Michael. 1996. Reconceptualizing the Peasantry. Anthropology in Global Perspective. Boulder: Westview Press.

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