Beyond Cultures

Author : Edward T. Hall
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780385124744

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Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall Pdf

From a renowned American anthropologist comes a proud celebration of human capacities. For too long, people have taken their own ways of life for granted, ignoring the vast, international cultural community that srrounds them. Humankind must now embark on the difficult journey beyond culture, to the discovery of a lost self a sense of perspective. By holding up a mirror, Hall permits us to see the awesome grip of unconscious culture. With concrete examples ranging from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to the mating habits of the bowerbird of New Guinea, Hall shows us ourselves. Beyond Culture is a book about self-discovery; it is a voyage we all must embark on if mankind is to survive. "Fascinating and emotionally challenging. . . . The book's graceful, non-technical style and the many illuminating, real-life illustrations make it a delight to read." —Library Journal "Hall's book helps us to rethink our values. . . . We come away from it exhilarated." —Ashley Montagu "In this penetrating analysis of the culturally determined yet 'unconscious' attitudes that mold our thought, feeling, communication and behavior. . . . Hall makes explicit taken-for-granted linguistic patterns, body rhythms, personality dynamics, educational goals. . . . Many of Hall's ideas are original and incisive . . . [and] should reward careful readers with new ways of thinking about themselves and others." —Publishers Weekly "A fascintaing book which stands beside The Hidden Dimension and The Silent Language to prove Hall one of the most original anthropologists of our era." —Paul Bohannan

Author : Philippe Descola
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226145006

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Beyond Nature and Culture by Philippe Descola Pdf

“Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French edition Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Culture—as a collective human making, of art, language, and so forth—is often seen as essentially different from nature, which is portrayed as a collective of the nonhuman world, of plants, animals, geology, and natural forces. Philippe Descola shows this essential difference to be not only a Western notion, but also a very recent one. Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, he formulates a sophisticated new framework, the “four ontologies” —animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism—to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature. By thinking beyond nature and culture as a simple dichotomy, Descola offers a fundamental reformulation by which anthropologists and philosophers can see the world afresh. “A compelling and original account of where the nature-culture binary has come from, where it might go—and what we might imagine in its place.” —Somatosphere “The most important book coming from French anthropology since Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Anthropologie Structurale.” —Bruno Latour, author of An Inquiry into Modes of Existence “Descola’s challenging new worldview should be of special interest to a wide range of scientific and academic disciplines from anthropology to zoology . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice

Author : Richard G. Fox,Barbara J. King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000180572

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Anthropology Beyond Culture by Richard G. Fox,Barbara J. King Pdf

Culture is a vexed concept within anthropology. From their earliest studies, anthropologists have often noted the emotional attachment of people to their customs, even in cases where this loyalty can make for problems. Do anthropologists now suffer the same kind of disability with respect to their continuing emotional attachment to the concept of culture? This book considers the state of the culture concept in anthropology and finds fault with a ‘love it or leave it' attitude. Rather than pledging undying allegiance or summarily dismissing it, the volume argues that anthropology can continue with or without a concept of culture, depending on the research questions being asked, and, furthermore, that when culture is retained, no single definition of it is practical or necessary.Offering sensible solutions to a topic of hot debate, this book will be essential reading for anyone seeking to learn what a concept of culture can offer anthropology, and what anthropology can offer the concept of culture.

Author : Edward T. Hall
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015035755720

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Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall Pdf

Edward T. Hall opens up new dimensions of understanding and perception of human experience by helping us rethink our values in constructive ways.

Author : Kwame Gyekye
Publisher : CRVP
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 156518193X

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Beyond Cultures by Kwame Gyekye Pdf

Author : James J. Connolly,Patrick Collier,Frank Felsenstein,Kenneth R. Hall,Robert Hall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442624238

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Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis by James J. Connolly,Patrick Collier,Frank Felsenstein,Kenneth R. Hall,Robert Hall Pdf

Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, and colonial outposts have produced, disseminated, and read print materials. Too often print media has been represented as an engine of metropolitan modernity. Rather than being the passive recipients of print culture generated in city centres, the inhabitants of provinces and colonies have acted independently, as jobbing printers in provincial Britain, black newspaper proprietors in the West Indies, and library patrons in “Middletown,” Indiana, to mention a few examples. This important new book gives us a sophisticated account of how printed materials circulated, a more precise sense of their impact, and a fuller of understanding of how local contexts shaped reading experiences.

Author : Rinaldo Walcott,Roy Moodley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780802095350

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Counseling Across and Beyond Cultures by Rinaldo Walcott,Roy Moodley Pdf

Multicultural counseling is a dynamic field, one that continually changes to reflect shifting social norms and to serve an increasingly diverse and globalized population. There is a growing need for counselors and psychotherapists who are sensitive and inclusive not only in regard to race, culture, and ethnicity, but also in matters related to gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, and class. Inspired by the pioneering work of Clemmont E. Vontress, the contributors to Counseling across and beyond Cultures trace the evolution of multicultural counseling and discuss remaining challenges for pratitioners. Essays include personal reflections by Vontress himself, assessments of developments in multicultural counseling, evaluations of Vontress's influence in Canada and the United Kingdom, and African and Caribbean perspectives on his work. Throughout, the volume offers historical, philosophical, and critical analysis of Vontress's accomplishments in the light of the changing epistemologies of multicultural counseling and psychotherapy.

Author : Victoria E. Bonnell,Lynn Hunt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520922167

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Beyond the Cultural Turn by Victoria E. Bonnell,Lynn Hunt Pdf

Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research. The editors provide an introduction analyzing the origins and implications of the cultural turn and its postmodernist critiques of knowledge. Essays by leading historians and historical sociologists reflect on the uses of cultural theories and show both their promise and their limitations. The afterword by Hayden White provides an assessment of the trend toward culturalism by one its most influential proponents. Beyond the Cultural Turn offers fresh theoretical readings of the most persistent issues created by the cultural turn and provocative empirical studies focusing on diverse social practices, the uses of narrative, and the body and self as critical junctures where culture and society intersect.

Author : Danielle Fuller,DeNel Rehberg Sedo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135080372

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Reading Beyond the Book by Danielle Fuller,DeNel Rehberg Sedo Pdf

Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events and the contemporary meanings of reading in the UK, USA, and Canada based on original interviews and surveys with readers and event organizers. The resurgence of book groups has inspired new cultural formations of what the authors call "shared reading." They interrogate the enduring attraction of an old technology for readers, community organizers, and government agencies, exploring the social practices inspired by the sharing of books in public spaces and revealing the complex ideological investments made by readers, cultural workers, institutions, and the mass media in the meanings of reading.

Author : Michael Robert Karlberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0853984891

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Beyond the Culture of Contest by Michael Robert Karlberg Pdf

In this analysis of contemporary society, Michael Karlberg puts forward the thesis that our present 'culture of contest' is both socially unjust and ecologically unsustainable and that the surrounding 'culture of protest' is an inadequate response to the social and ecological problems it generates. The development of non-adversarial structures and practices is imperative.

Author : Cheryl Nakata
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230240834

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Beyond Hofstede by Cheryl Nakata Pdf

Hofstede introduced a culture paradigm that has been widely influential in international business. However, its relevance in light of culture's increasing complexity due to globalization has been questioned. Alternative culture frameworks and perspectives are offered by leading scholars in global marketing and management.

Author : Karl Erik Rosengren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134874545

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Media Effects and Beyond by Karl Erik Rosengren Pdf

Addressing a multitude of questions and issues surrounding how we use the media, Media Effects and Beyond represents the results of an international research programme into the use and effects of television, video and music. Seeing the viewer not simply as passive object but as a very active subject, the contributors engage with every aspect of children's, adolescents' and families' use of the media - its character, causes and consequences. Topics explored include media and social mobility; family commumication, and consumer lifestyles. Confronting the two traditions of lifestyle research and effects research, Media Effects and Beyond offers a much-needed reconceptualization of both. Written at a time when traditional European public service media systems struggle against a tidal wave of commercial electronic media, this book will be important reading for students of contemporary culture and communications, as well as media policy for decision makers.

Author : Peter Golding,Phil Harris
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015040722277

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Beyond Cultural Imperialism by Peter Golding,Phil Harris Pdf

Moving beyond notions of cultural imperialism, this book furthers our understanding of the implications of global media culture and politics in the 1990s. Leading scholars from a range of fields bring different perspectives to bear on the role of the state, the range of culture beyond the media, the contribution of international organizations, and the potential for resistance and alternatives. They reflect on the `New World International Communications Order' as delineated since the 1970s, and examine its changing nature. Throughout, they connect analysis of the flows and forces which form the world media and communications with the fundamental themes of social science, and illuminate the ways in which underlying questions

Author : Evert Peeters,Leen Van Molle,Kaat Wils
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459871

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Beyond Pleasure by Evert Peeters,Leen Van Molle,Kaat Wils Pdf

Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evokes the ongoing success of ascetic practices and beliefs. Nostalgic memories of hardship and discipline in the army, youth movements or boarding schools remain as present as the fashionable irritation with the presumed modern-day laziness. In the very texture of contemporary culture, age-old asceticism proves to be remarkably alive. Old ascetic forms were remoulded to serve modern desires for personal authenticity, an authenticity that disconnected asceticism in the course of the nineteenth century from two traditions that had underpinned it since classical antiquity: the public, republican austerity of antiquity and the private, religious asceticism of Christianity. Exploring various aspects such as the history of the body, of aesthetics, science, and social thought in several European countries (Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Belgium), the authors show that modern asceticism remains a deeply ambivalent category. Apart from self-realisation, classical and religious examples continue to haunt the ascetic mind.

Author : Lionel Trilling
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0670160911

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Beyond Culture by Lionel Trilling Pdf