Sunday, January 20, 2008

Week 2 – Barker, Chapter 3

Cultural studies are a vast and diverse field.
In this chapter, many definitions and points of view about culture described, whether it is seen as the best of what the world has to offer, or as a whole way of life, whether the accent is put on economics or on anthropology, all definitions have some truth, and yet they are not exhaustive.

At first I was wondering if I was studying cultures or studying how other people studied cultures. I guess the former is possible only through the latter, this subject being so large that every opinion and point of view is necessary to have complete (or is it really complete?) grasp of what is going on.

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