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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... Living to Tell : Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly Susan McClary 459 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Ritual and Resistance : Subversion as a Social Fact Nicholas B. Dirks 483 CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Circulation of Social Energy Stephen Greenblatt 504 ...
... Living to Tell : Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly . " Reprinted from Genders , no . 7 ( 1990 ) : 1-21 , by permission of the author and the University of Texas Press . Sherry B. Ortner , " Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties ...
... Living to Tell : Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly , " she writes about one of the most remarkable phenomena of contemporary popular music , namely , Madonna , whose determined assault on the representational codes of both ...
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