contemporary art
Royal Anthropological Institute or Royal Academy? Post-Modern Anthropology as Contemporary Art
By: EDWARD DUTTON – It has been widely argued that postmodern and cultural relativism are replacement religions in Romantic, neo-tribal tradition (e.g. Scruton 2000, Kuznar 1997) This article attempts to better understand the nature of postmodern anthropology by looking at it through the prism of Art. Following Scruton (2000), it argues that, since the Enlightenment,…

