cultural interpretation
Reading through context
Cultural interpretation is the process of understanding or explaining something through the lens of a particular culture's values, beliefs, and practices.
What counts as polite, sacred, beautiful, or offensive varies across cultures, making interpretation culturally dependent: The gesture has different cultural interpretations in Asia and Europe.
The term appears in anthropology, art criticism, and tourism, where guides provide cultural interpretation of sites and artifacts.
- film studiesAcademic analysis of movies
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- rites of passageCeremonies marking major transitions
- sacred spaceArea reserved for worship
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
ethnocentrism · accent · body language · colonialism · relativism · thick description · lost in translation · reading between lines · metaphor · tradition · historiography · semiotics · hybridity · iconography · heritage · national identity · globalization · world view
cultural interpretationuniversal truth
Fact holding everywhere, always
empirical data · absolute truth · natural law · logical necessity · raw data
cultural, culture, cultures, cultured, culturing, culturally, multicultural, intercultural, subcultural