Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be SolvedUniv of Wisconsin Press, Sep 15, 1998 - 328 pages French historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the conflict between the ideals of individualism and community defines American culture. In this groundbreaking new work, anthropologist Charles Nuckolls discovers that every culture consists of such paradoxes, thus making culture a problem that cannot be solved. He does, however, find much creative tension in these unresolvable opposites. |
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... Values . 4. National characteristics , American . 5. Psychiatry - United States . 6. Micronesians - Psychology . I. Title . GN357.N83 306 - dc21 1998 98-6856 It is the paradox of culture that subjective life which Copyrighted Material.
A Problem That Cannot Be Solved Charles W. Nuckolls. It is the paradox of culture that subjective life which we feel in its continuous stream and which drives itself towards inner perfection cannot by itself reach the perfection of ...
... Paradoxes of Desire and the Dialectics of Value 2. Spiro and Lutz on Ifaluk : Value Dialectics on a Micronesian Atoll ... Paradox Bibliography Index 202 270 279 293 vii Foreword Charles W. Nuckolls has for a decade given me Copyrighted ...
... paradoxes at their core . It should be clear that we are talking not just about knowledge or motivation but both . A theory of culture as paradox must address both , because the organization of knowledge and its deep motivation go hand ...
... paradoxes become creatively motivating . Kant thus becomes especially useful , because he proposed an " analytic " of the sublime to decompose the experience into its internal constituents . The analytic begins by distinguishing the ...
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Value Dialectics and the Construction of a Regional Identity Max Weber in Oklahoma | 74 |
The Allocation of Value to Gender and the Cultural History of Psychiatric Diagnosis | 108 |
Cultural Ambivalence and the Knowledge Structures of Modern American Psychiatry | 161 |
The Narrative Reproduction of Values in Psychiatric Training and Practice | 202 |
Dialectical Values and Cultural Paradox | 270 |
Bibliography | 279 |
Index | 293 |