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Sitting Buddha in a Mississippi Golf Course: Constructing Anthropology in Exotic and Familiar Settings
Author(s) -
Durrenberger E. Paul
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 0193-5615
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.1991.16.3.88
Subject(s) - gautama buddha , subject matter , subject (documents) , power (physics) , aesthetics , sociology , course (navigation) , anthropology , epistemology , history , art , philosophy , computer science , buddhism , archaeology , engineering , pedagogy , physics , quantum mechanics , library science , curriculum , aerospace engineering
Anthropologists view the subject matter of anthropology variously as an abstract panhuman mentality, irreducible local cultural manifestations and histories, and a single system of power, among others. It is somehow the exotic that catches our attention sufficiently to demand explanation. The more people share our own cultural assumptions, the less problematic their behavior and language, and the more the challenge to see past our own assumptions to create a sense of distance and question.