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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... thought to have changed extraordinarily slowly , if at all . The virtual absence of historical investigation in anthropology , until recently , has meant that cul- tural systems have , indeed , appeared timeless , at least until ...
... thought . More Power If two of the three key terms in our series refer as much to disciplinary cores — history and anthropology — as to a constellation of theoretical preoc- cupations , the third term , " power , " is both more specific ...
... thought and yet allow for the ways in which women have been and can continue to be the authors of their histories and politics . Imagining Practice In the final section of " Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties " ( this vol- ume ) ...
... thought has challenged and undermined established categories and prac- tices of scholarship . It is time now to pull together the various elements of contemporary feminist theory represented in this volume . " Feminist theory " is , of ...
... thought is highly gendered in its basic structures ... this was not only registered in the practical achievements of constitutions , legal codes , and political mobilization and their forms of justi- fication , but also ordered the ...
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks,Geoff Eley No preview available - 1994 |