Anthropological Studies of People, Place, and Culture and Their Implications for Area Studies

Sangmee Bak

International Area Studies Review, 1998, vol. 1, issue 2, 9-31

Abstract: Notions of people, place, and culture have been central to anthropological studies, and have reflected several critical changes the discipline has experienced. Two of the most salient changes are: the awareness of multivocality in cultures, and the recognition of the negotiated and contested nature of people, place, and culture. Using an ethnographic example from Insa-Dong in Seoul, Korea, a socio-historical construction of a place is examined. The relationship among people, place, and culture is not a neat juxtaposition with predetermined and clear-cut boundaries, but a constantly changing, and politically challenged one. It is, therefore, highly necessary to incorporate the dynamic aspects of this relationship in the use of anthropological studies in area studies.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1177/223386599800100202

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