When doing ethnographic fieldwork the understanding of time and place is one of the most essential tools for a cultural analysis. I think it was Stuart Hall, and probably a whole bunch of other cultural theorists, who said that everything that people say is contextual and therefore positioned. So… in order to fully understand a statement, a reflection or an idea, the framework for that thought should be as interesting as the actual statement. That’s cultural analysis.
Aningens off topic kanske, men jag tyckte att detta blogginlägg var intressant ur ett antropologiskt perspektiv; http://www.weirdscience.se/?p=4188#comments