Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be SolvedFrench 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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... approach Nuckolls's meticulous documentation about the ambivalent primate in countless ways . Nuckolls has been impressed— from fieldwork and the literature — by the presence ( everywhere he looks ) of both internally identified ...
... approach that the theory of cultural paradox calls for . Of course , this must end up being deeply offensive to committed practitioners on both sides . But I want to turn from social science , just Copyrighted Material xvi PREFACE.
... approach cannot help because it tends to view contradiction as a problem rather than as a generative mechanism . This book is not a treatise on Kant and aesthetic theory but a theory- driven series of case studies , the purpose of which ...
... approach seems to call , I do not claim that the process will be sublime , or even beautiful , only that it will be dialecticaily motivating . Acknowledgments During the fieldwork on which this book is based Copyrighted Material χχίν ...
... approaches on differ- ent grounds , and the mechanisms they proposed also differ . Durkheim retained correspondence theory's focus on the external world and its organization as the source of knowledge and the structure of categories ...
Contents
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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 |