The Problem of Universal Values and Intercultural Space – New /Old Predicament of Anthropology

Autor

  • Marcin Brocki Jagiellonian University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.13.2016.44.09

Słowa kluczowe:

universalism vs. relativism, universal values, translating cultures

Abstrakt

The discussion over universal vs. cultural relative values hits the core of anthropological knowledge. Although cultural relativism served as an almost irrefutable basis for anthropological practice of understanding the Other, several factors of a recent origin have started to undermine the obvious. The “Arab spring,” the “Occupy” movements, the debate over female circumcision that attracts global attention, local uses of the relativistic arguments in political contexts and the debates over universality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all of these trigger a new discourse on the universality of human values. Universality turns our attention to the problem of translatability of cultures – without an assumption that there is shared, intercultural space and a certain level of commensurability between cultures, any rapport would be impossible. The translation problem directs us toward a discussion on cross-cultural communication and the universality of values and their hierarchies. The discussion has showed that values are not constant residua within intercultural space but rather they are part of an interpretive activity of the participants of a cross-cultural interaction.

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  • Marcin Brocki - Jagiellonian University

    Assοciate Professor and Head of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). In his research he focuses on theoretical anthropology, intercultural communication, semiotics, public anthropology, anthropology of the body, and post-socialism. His recent publications include: Body language in anthropological perspective (Wrocław 2000, in Polish), Anthropology. Literature-dialogue-translation (Wrocław 2008, in Polish), Social and Cultural Anthropology in Public Space (Krakow 2013, in Polish), “Bachtin’s heritage in anthropology – alterity and dialogue,” In: Philosophy and Anthropology: Border-Crossing and Transformations, Ananta Kumar Giri and John Clammer (eds.), (London 2013), “The Late 1980s and Early 1990s in Poland as a Dynamic Process in Culture. The Question about Bifurcation,” In: Semiotics of Communications, A. Lusińska, A. Kalinowska-Żeleźnik (eds.), (Gdańsk 2015).

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18-10-2016

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“The Problem of Universal Values and Intercultural Space – New Old Predicament of Anthropology”. 2016. Politeja 13 (5 (44): 131-41. https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.13.2016.44.09.

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