Violence in Contemporary Anthropology: The South-Asian Case and the Postcolonial Condition
Violence in Contemporary Anthropology: The South-Asian Case and the Postcolonial Condition

Summary/Abstract: In order to analyse some instances of violence in today’s global context, more specifically in the South-Asian postcolonial space, I will try to (re)define the study object of anthropology. For this I would like to look first into the concept of 'culture'. Connected directly with 'culture' of diverse human communities is the context in which it acts. The context I am interested in for the purpose of this paper is defined by the postcolonial or neo-colonial space, and the new 'cultural nationalism', as defined by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park in their essay "Postcolonial Feminism/ Postcolonialism and Feminism", as a form of valorisation of the past, the resurrection of religious symbols, the assertion of pride in indigenous languages, literature and the arts, and the resistance to alien knowledge and values.

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