Digital repatriation, Amerindian reappropriations. Introduction to Part Two

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning. (Geertz 1973, p. 5) In this well-known quotation featured here as an epigraph, culture is defined as a web of meanings that humans weave to hold themselves up and, one can assume, to provide a panoramic perch where they can wait i...