gatekeeping concept

is a core discourse that adheres to certain regions and places.

Anthropologist of complex societies are controlled by what Appadurai calls 'gatekeeping concepts' which 'seem to limit anthropological theorizing abut the place in question, and that define the dominant lines of questions of interest in the region' (Appaudrai 357). essentially boil down to the core discourses of certain places, and he provides examples such as 'hierarchy in India, honor-and-shame in the cirum-Mediterranean, filial piety in China' (ibid). He further asks 'whether these gatekeeping concepts, these theoretical metonyms, really reflect something significant about the place ikn question, or whether they reveal a relatively arbitrary imposition of the whims of anthropological fashion on particular places' (358).

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gatekeeping concept