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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... Dialectics of Value 2. Spiro and Lutz on Ifaluk : Value Dialectics on a Micronesian Atoll Contents ix XV XXV 3 41 3 ... Dialectical Values and Cultural Paradox Bibliography Index 202 270 279 293 vii Foreword Charles W. Nuckolls has for ...
... dialectic use of case study and comparative method are exemplary basic anthropology . Likewise , he shows unsurpassed linguistic and literary analytic prowess in his dissection of American psychiatric texts . His exegesis is the equal ...
... dialectic ; psychiatry's ( double - bound ? ) task of healing people while keeping underlying cultural problems un ... dialectics . Who would have imagined , before reading Professor Nuckolls , that despite ostensible therapeutic ...
... dialectical , spiritual principle . To see the world divided into holistic camps , that is Spirit . All monism is boring . —Thomas Mann , The Magic Mountain The conclusion of this book is that culture is a problem that cannot be solved ...
... dialectics constituted by opposing values . In the process they make up whole knowledge systems — systems that develop in pursuit of a goal that can never be reached , to solve a problem that can never be solved . The idea that culture ...
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 |