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https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.24.4.8
Cultural Capital between Bourdieu and Throsby: Toward an Interpretive Framework of Collective Expert Appraisal
Mukarram Abduljalil
; King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Nabil Komosany
; King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Ismail Bahkali
; King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
* Dopisni autor.
Sažetak
Research on cultural capital has been shaped by influential sociological and economic traditions, most notably the work of Pierre Bourdieu and David Throsby. In Asian and Middle Eastern contexts, however, cultural value is often produced and recognized through socially embedded practices that extend beyond formal market mechanisms. This study adopts a sociologically informed, interpretive approach to examine how cultural value is constructed, negotiated, and legitimized within specific social fields. Rather than reconciling Bourdieu and Throsby theoretically, the article introduces Collective Expert Appraisal as an interpretive analytical framework for understanding how socially recognized experts shape cultural evaluation processes. Drawing primarily on Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital and symbolic power, and engaging selectively with economic perspectives on cultural value, the study conceptualizes experts as cultural intermediaries whose judgments reflect shared norms, aesthetic conventions, and embodied cultural knowledge. The framework is explored through a qualitative case study of the Yemeni Jambiya industry, based on semi-structured interviews with twelve experts involved in production, trade, and cultural authentication. Findings show that cultural value emerges not only from material attributes but from historically situated meanings, collective memory, symbolic associations, and affective attachments articulated through expert consensus and contestation. Collective Expert Appraisal is proposed as a context-sensitive lens for analysing cultural evaluation as a social process in non-Western settings.
Ključne riječi
cultural value; cultural capital; collective expert appraisal; Bourdieu-Throsby framework; Yemeni jambiya
Hrčak ID:
347879
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.8.2026.
Posjeta: 65 *