Cultural Diversity and Interpretation in Anthropology

ブンカ ノ タヨウセイ ト カイシャク ベンショウホウテキ カンヨウ カラ ノ セイサツ

サトウ, ケンイチ

Sato, Kenichi

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

文化の尊厳

主観性

一元論

今日の多様性

日本の社会変化

concept of culture

cultural dignity

subjectivity

monism

cultural diversity today

social change in Japan

Cultural diversity emerges from human equality. This paper's attempt consists of contrasting the theoretical understanding of culture by focusing on this insight and asserting that anthropology should not be the study of others but the genuine study of man without the distinction between other and self in the present global age. This insight also shows that cultural dignity should be understood not as a particular cultures' but a form of human dignity. And alse shows the dangers which the requirement of the dignity makes, based on particular cultural identities. This argument will cotribute to recapture the richness of the anthropological concept of culture which has been criticized by cultural studies. Finally, it will examine the problem of cultural diversity today, which can be called a paradox due to the decreasing of cultural diversity, and the possibility of an interpretive anthropological approach on such a diversity in the present world. This paper will not only contribute to better understanding of apparent inconsistances among the arguments of cultural diversity, but also further undestanding of fundamental problems that concern both anthropology and all cultural research. It will do this by presenting theoretical arguments of cultural diversity and interpretation.

英語