Contemplating Stuffed Animals and Chocolate at a Seminar

https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800405276808

Abstract

This autoethnographic piece shows schisms that arise between culturally biased aesthetic interpretation and culturally informed productions of meaning. Mundane signifiers come to represent worldviews in conflict, problematizing assumptions in critical cultural theory.

Keywords

cultural difference biased criticism and interpretation tolerance and appreciation Asian aesthetics autoethnography

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