Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (1996): Post-modernism is defined as an eclectic movement, originating in aesthetics -- architecture and philosophy.
Postmodernism espouses a systematic skepticism of grounded theoretical perspective.
Applied to anthropology, this skepticism has focused from the observation of a particular society to the observation of the observer.
Postmodernists are suspicious of authoritative definitions and singular narratives of any trajectory of events.
Post-modern attacks of ethnography are based on the belief that there is no true objectivity.
Scientific method is not possible.
What does the anthropologist feel about this culture? Can he separate himself from his job, his culture, his own beliefs in order to chronicle another culture?