What does Post-Modern mean?

Answer 1

Post Modernism Post modernism refutes the generalizing tendency in anthropology and does not believe that anthropologists can provide a grand theory of human behavior. Instead, it considers each culture as being unique. Post modernism is influenced by both cultural relativism and ethno-science. Post-modernists want anthropology to stop making cultural generalizations and focus on description and interpretation of different cultures. They consider cultural anthropology to be a humanistic not a scientific discipline. Post-modernists argue that ethnographies should be written collaboratively, so that the voice of the anthropologist co-exists alongside that of local people.

Answer 2

"Postmodern" is a broad term, and it essentially means a reaction against modernism. Modernism is also difficult to characterize, but it is partially a belief in progressive improvement and essential superiority to other periods of history. Modernism also strongly tends to reject tradition and the conventional beliefs of the past in favor of innovations. Postmodernism reacts to these points by insisting on a kind of equality amongst all ideas and times. Some Postmodern writers like Vonnegut, Pynchon, and Palahniuk strongly react against the idea that modern society is improving the world or is superior to other times. Postmodernism tends towards apocalyptic imagery and pessimism about the status quo. History is as much of a mystery as the future. Postmodern art is inspired by or even embraces the fragmentation and disorder of society. Russel Kirk, a social critic, wrote that the postmodern state is akin to picking up bits of a wrecked ship on a beach: one is not always sure what the fragments represent, and often finds both discarded garbage and discarded treasures. The postmodern artist is a collector of fragments of institutions, knowledge, art, myth, and other forms.

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POSTMEDERNISM BEFORE WW2People that saw it didn't understand it was to foreign. People depended on that something had to mean SOMETHING it couldn't just be they wanted his art to be significant or at least signify or have meaning. The whole concept of post-modernism is really defined by the fact that is doesn't NEED to signify anything, it simply allows us a way for out knowledge to become organised. Postmodernists just say to the world what you think is important really is not! So post-modern artists are the ones that blur the lines between sane and insane. They confuse the genre and don't really have a distinction. The post-modern world quotes "life itself is meaningless so lets not be ensnared by the illusions that art can give meaning to it, lets just play with nonsense."By lily Davis

Answer 3

Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes.

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