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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... wanted to have knowledge of . He limited the available choices to natural phenomena , assuming ( like Frazer and Muller ) that such events always demand explanation . Freud saw totemism differently , as a system that exists mainiy for ...
... wanted to examine different cultures in the same ecological area with a particular focus on the similarities and differences in values across them . The ethnographic result was the Comparative Study of Value in Five Cultures , which ran ...
... wanted to address the emotional significance of nor- mative , value - based evaluations without reducing emotions to universal feeling states , like happiness or anger . That is why he used the term cathexis — it refers to the ...
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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 |