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Ethnoculture
Ethnoculture has involved the study of specific cultural groupings of people through time and space, especially in terms of the individual lives of the people who compose these groupings, and especially in relation to other groupings and in relation to processes of change and transformation that people undergo as the consequence of culture contact and historical happenstance. Ethnoculture importantly also strives to contextualize the study of such groupings of people within the knowledge provenience of all known scholarship about such people in a comprehensive and exhaustive manner.
Ethnocultural studies have come to focus especially on inbetween or "creole" groupings of people, whose cultural orientation is the product of the amalgamation of two or more different cultural orientations and who tend to exist on the margins of the cultural worlds of which they are a part.
Ethnocultural studies can be considered to be comprehensive in approach, and to deal with people exhaustively both in situ to their current and past situation, as well as in context not only to the world in which they inhabit, but in relation to the literature and knowledge that surrounds and informs our understanding of such people.
Generally, the individual member of a society, as culture bearer, is considered to be enmeshed in a larger ethno-cultural context such that life-decisions may be constrained by this context, and may in turn effect and alter this context in meaningful ways. A central problem addressed in ethnocultural studies is therefore the question of how a culture becomes embodied and expressed in terms of the daily life and life world of any particular individual, and how that individual may in turn act in ways that will ultimately shape and modify the ethnocultural context of whicy they are a part.
The links to the primary portals of this framework are found below:
