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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... Anthropology since the Sixties Sherry B. Ortner 372 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Cosmologies of Capitalism : The Trans - Pacific Sector of " The World System " Marshall Sahlins 412 PART THREE : CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY 457 CHAPTER FOURTEEN Living ...
... anthropology . It is meant to suggest some good ways of asking the questions . We hope it will be a good book with which to think . We first sat down to plan the volume in the spring of 1989 , when we first pooled our individual ...
... anthropology . The other would be to our colleagues in the CSST Faculty Seminar , who have provided a rare and precious context for intellectual exchange and discovery . • PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • Linda Alcoff , " Cultural Feminism ...
... Anthropological Association from Cultural Anthropology 4 ( August 1989 ) : 3. Not for further reproduction . Raymond Williams , selections from Marxism and Literature , copyright Oxford Uni- versity Press 1977. Reprinted from Marxism ...
... anthropology , until recently , has meant that cul- tural systems have , indeed , appeared timeless , at least until ruptured by " cul- ture contact . " But as anthropologists have begun to adopt , at least partially , a historical ...
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