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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... thought . It is anthropology at its best . I have long thought that Charles Nuckolls is our ( anthropology's ) next Kroeber . This latest book , Culture : A Problem That Cannot Be Solved , fur- ther confirms my conviction . But I must ...
... reso- lutions in an oppositional dynamic movement that never ceases . Kant did not quite see it that way , admittedly , but his thought points in that direction — indeed , that is the direction Hegel and Copyrighted Material XX PREFACE.
... thought epiphenomenal is no solution , however , because psycho- analysis is a form of thinking that has demonstrative effects on emotional experience . This is not to say that cognitivism and psychoanalysis are wrong but that they ...
... thought , unlike the natural sciences , tends to be cyclical , returning periodically for sustenance , reassessment , and reformulation ( 1971 , 3 ) . This book is organized in a similar fashion . It is a series of ethnographic studies ...
... thought I could handle . " You know , just look like what you are : a nerdy college type , " he replied . We were standing outside a bar on the northern edge of town . It was a rough place ; a lot of drug deals went on there . The ...
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 |