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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... represent individual values pushed to great extremes . The value of independence is allocated to men , and men who represent this value in extreme form become diagnosable with one of the disorders of independence , such as narcissistic ...
... represented as so many simple and irreducible data , imminent in the human mind by virtue of its inborn constitution . For this reason they are said to be a priori . Orhers , however , hold that they are constructed and made up of ...
... represents . Freud hypothesized that in the ancient past the father kept all the women for himself and drove away his sons as soon as they grew up . The brothers united , killed , and ate the father . In devouring him they also ...
... represent different orders of reality , and different laws must govern them . Durkheim considered the possibility that the two kinds of conscience might be encompassed within a comprehensive sociopsychological theory but concluded that ...
... represent both their hate and their love for the father they have just killed and eaten , the brothers select a totem animal that they surround with ritual taboos as well as ritually consume on special occa- sions . Religion begins here ...
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 |