Warrior Marks

Warrior Marks

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Warrior Marks

How often do we seek to distinguish between the Western and non-Western cultural thinking ? How often instead of looking deeper into social ethnographic and anthropological implications of non-Western cultural traditions , do we increase the existing gap between Western cultural appropriateness ' and non-Western social otherness ? It appears that ethnographic research does not always lead to cultural reconciliation , and whenever scholars try to combine professional research and commercial profit , they inevitably limit themselves to subjectivity , avoiding the most interesting and controversial social

br tensions and expanding the boundaries of never ending racism

Grewal and Kaplan (1996 ) are confident that when trying to create an objective picture of otherness , we are being torn between the two opposing forms of cultural representation , and this western / non-western paradigm shapes our attitudes and predetermines our reactions to everything that goes beyond the acceptable limits of western cultural thinking . This binary structure of our cultural perceptions seems to contradict to the generally accepted principles of multiculturalism , and turns neo-colonial representations into the essential component of any ethnographic narrative . It should be noted that US cultural feminism constructed an unproblematic narrative of liberation based on a universalized and essentialist identity as `woman . This form of cultural feminism , as it has been practiced in the US and Europe from the 70 's to the present , often turns its attention to global sisterhood (Grewal Kaplan , 1996 . As a result , both Walker and Parmar seek to review the tragedy of African womanhood through the...