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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... Ritual and Resistance : Subversion as a Social Fact Nicholas B. Dirks 483 CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Circulation of Social Energy Stephen Greenblatt 504 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Cultural Studies : Two Paradigms Stuart Hall CHAPTER vi • CONTENTS .
... Ritual and Resistance : Subversion as a Social Fact . " Reprinted , with changes , from Douglas Haynes and Gyan Prakash , eds . , Contesting Power : Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia ( New York : Oxford Uni- versity ...
... rituals , festivals , folklore or alternatively simply doing " the ethnography of the past . " On neither side was there a ... ritual , and the like and into the center of the historical problematic , or , rather , to recognize that the ...
... rituals . Where Durkheim had argued that " mental " and symbolic representations reflected social structure , Levi - Strauss turned Durkheim on his head . Bourdieu , in turn , was attempting to turn Durkheim back again ( but with a ...
... Ritual and Resistance : Subversion as a Social Fact " ( this volume ) , Nicholas Dirks reviews a range of arguments about the character of resistance and its relationship to both periodic and quotidian forms of cultural practice . The ...
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