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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... turn out to have been " invented , " and not very long ago at that ( see Hobsbawm and Ranger 1983 ) . In other cases , long - term cultural configurations have , indeed , been very stable ( e.g. , Bloch 1986 ; Geertz 1980 ; Ortner 1989 ) ...
... turn become cultural symbols , as powerful in their nonexecution as in their doing . And , of course , force in turn is only a tiny part of power , so that much of the problematic of power today is a problematic of knowledge making ...
... turn - of- the - century U.S. capitalism , and they became entwined in the development of eugenics , the movement " to preserve hereditary stock , to assure racial purity , to prevent race suicide . " Although Haraway's emphasis on the ...
... turn , was attempting to turn Durkheim back again ( but with a political twist absent in both Durkheim and Levi - Strauss ) , arguing that the structures to be found in cultural forms were " transformed , misrecognizable form [ s ] of ...
... turning to anthropology and a sophisticated conception of culture and power relations — so that the microcontexts of ... turn grounds both culture and power in history . In its strongest claims , practice theory is nothing less than a ...
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