Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social TheoryNicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner 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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... capital- ism . " Haraway follows Akeley from his first triumph , when he successfully stuffed P. T. Barnum's dead elephant , to his final apotheosis in an African jungle , where he died from tropical fever during the last of a series of ...
... capital transformed the death of a god into the pretext of conquest . And , through the same story , Sahlins has insisted on the destabil- izing character of events for all notions of structure ( see Sahlins 1981 , 1985 ) . Clifford ...
... capital and labor . So far from such a contradiction's being structurally constitutive for the rise of a labor movement in some unmediated and straightforward way , the labor movement was actually shaped from the field of contradictions ...
... Capital . London : New Left Books . Andersen , Margaret L. , and Patricia Hill Collins . 1992. Race , Class and Gender : An Anthology . Belmont , Calif .: Wadsworth Publishing Co. Anderson , Benedict . 1983. Imagined Communities ...
... Capital : Art , Power and the Nineteenth - Century Middle Class . Manchester : Manchester University Press . Wolpe , Harold , ed . 1980. The Articulation of Modes of Production . London : Rout- ledge . Wright , Erik Olin . 1978. Class ...
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