As Others See Us: A Conversation on Cultural Differences - Softcover

Jhingran, Divya; Balagangadhara, S.N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1507832338 ISBN 13: 9781507832332

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

At this time, all cultures are studied through the prism of western scholarship. This results in a distortion that denies peoples from other cultures an access to their own experience. An examination of some key ideas drawn from Indian and western culture highlights the nature of the problem and the conceptual constraints imposed by western scholarship. These constraints are so deep and so pervasive within western culture that they set limits on western imagination itself, and, consequently, on the imagination of folks from all other cultures. Now, to regain access to the varieties of cultural experience, we must develop alternative theoretical frameworks. Here is an example of one such attempt. With this, we can begin to get a taste of what the world, including the West, would look like if people from other cultures were to describe it in their terms.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1507832338
• ISBN 13: 9781507832332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218