Anthropology in the Postmodern Landscape

The Importance of Cultural Brokers and Their Trade

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19007110
AutoresAde Peace (The University of Adelaide, autor de correspondencia)
Año1998
Volumen9
Número3
Páginas274-284
Fecha de publicación1998-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Australian Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1035-8811 • E-ISSN: 1757-6547
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1835-9310.1998.tb00197.x
OpenAlexW1974734379
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas17

This paper proposes that an anthropology of postmodern Australia should accord some priority to the analysis of cultural brokerage. In the first instance, cultural brokers are simply defined as those who trade in popular culture at a national/international level. They are located between the core areas of global production on the one hand and semi‐peripheral areas of popular consumption on the other. But brokers do much more than merely trade in culture. They define its meaning, they establish its significance in the overall order of things, they endow it with particular kinds of power. These points are briefly illustrated with reference to the Australian Grand Prix

Aesthetics · Business · Consumption (sociology) · Cultural anthropology · Economics · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Order (exchange) · Postmodernism · Power (physics) · Production (economics) · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Philosophy

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