An epistemological awakening

Michel de Certeau and the writing of culture

in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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Ben Highmore Media and Film Studies, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BNI 9RG B.Highmore@sussex.ac.uk

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The historian and theorist Michel de Certeau offers a challenge and a promise to all those involved in the practice of ‘writing culture’. Part of the promise that his work contains is for a true interdisciplinarity that is fashioned out of a much more integrated approach to culture; but it is also a promise that suggests an approach to culture that is much more responsive to the particularity and peculiarity of culture (an ‘interdiscipline’ that would refashion itself in its response to its object). The challenge that de Certeau offers is one fundamental to anyone writing culture now: how to write of reality, truth, actuality, in the face of the massive epistemological scepticism generated by poststructuralism.

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