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Sundered Subjects and Opaque Others
Author(s) -
Crapanzano Vincent
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.1996.21.2.135
Subject(s) - appropriation , metaphysics , kinship , limit (mathematics) , criticism , opacity , proposition , genealogy , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , political science , history , law , anthropology , physics , mathematics , optics , mathematical analysis
What worries me about so much postcolonial cultural criticism is its appropriation of an other as its limit‐text rather than an opening text. Those with a different metaphysics are given short shrift by both the appropriative Westerner and those who claim through kinship to be their representatives.