Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social TheoryNicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner Princeton University Press, 1994 - 621 pages The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology to the philosophy of science. Michel Foucault in particular made us aware that whatever our functionally defined "roles" in society, we are constantly negotiating questions of authority and the control of the definitions of reality. Such insights have led theorists to challenge concepts that have long formed the very underpinnings of their disciplines. By exploring some of the most debated of these concepts--"culture," "power," and "history"--this reader offers an enriching perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. |
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... denying framework . However , the attractions of poststructuralism for British and American feminists were very similar to those for the French philoso- phers : they allowed an escape from the essentialized subject 14 INTRODUCTION .
... American and other minority militants , or anticolonial activists , " the poverty of theory " has been a recurring complaint . As a leading literary theorist and critic , cen- trally positioned in one of the dominant culture's leading ...
... American reading of Weber achieved its peculiar power in a succession of subtle readings of cockfights , market towns , wedding feasts , calendrical schemas , irrigation temples , and royal cremations , to mention only a few ex- amples ...
... American Museum of Natural History , as a " meaning ma- chine , " produces a particular , and historically emergent , form of masculinity : Man is not in nature partly because he is not seen , is not the spectacle . A constitu- tive ...
... America : Preliminary Notes on Class and Culture , " in Rich- ard G. Fox , ed . , Recapturing Anthropology : Working in the Present , 163-89 . Santa Fe , N.M .: School of American Research Press . Ortner , Sherry B. , and Harriet ...
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