In Search Of The Primitive

Author : Stanley Diamond
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351615457

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Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities—a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In Search of the Primitive is a tough-minded book containing chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of law, schizophrenia and civilization, and the evolution of the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Above all it is reflective and self-critical, critical of the discipline of anthropology and of the civilization that produced that discipline. Diamond views the anthropologist who refuses to become a searching critic of his own civilizations as not merely irresponsible, but a tool of Western civilization. He rejects the associations which have been made in the ideology of our civilization, consciously or unconsciously, between Western dominance and progress, imperialism and evolution, evolution and progress.

Author : Stanley Diamond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : OCLC:427651080

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The Search for the Primitive by Stanley Diamond Pdf

Author : Stanley Diamond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351615440

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In Search of the Primitive by Stanley Diamond Pdf

Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities—a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In Search of the Primitive is a tough-minded book containing chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of law, schizophrenia and civilization, and the evolution of the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Above all it is reflective and self-critical, critical of the discipline of anthropology and of the civilization that produced that discipline. Diamond views the anthropologist who refuses to become a searching critic of his own civilizations as not merely irresponsible, but a tool of Western civilization. He rejects the associations which have been made in the ideology of our civilization, consciously or unconsciously, between Western dominance and progress, imperialism and evolution, evolution and progress.

Author : Stanley Diamond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475309783

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Author : Lewis Cotlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCAL:B3426239

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Author : Adam Kuper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 0415009022

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The Invention of Primitive Society by Adam Kuper Pdf

Both a critical history of anthropological theory and methods and a challenging essay in the sociology of science, "The Invention of Primitive Society" shows how, since Darwin, anthropologists have tried to define the original form of human society. The first generation - from Henry Maine to Lewis Henry Morgan - initiated the search. By the end of the century, the theory of 'totemism', developed by McLennan, Robertson Smith and Frazer, claimed to describe the initial state of religion and society. These Victorian models were refined and developed by great theorists, including Engels, Durkheim and Freud, and became the basis of academic anthropology. But, as Adam Kuper points out, there was no original 'primitive society': the search and its goal were illusory, and when we study constructions of the primitive we study mirror-images of ourselves.

Author : Caroline Goeser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015067691934

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Picturing the New Negro by Caroline Goeser Pdf

Chronicles the vibrant partnership between literary and visual African American artists that resulted in the image of the New Negro. In the process, demonstrates that commercial illustration represents the largest and, in some cases, most progressive body of visual art associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

Author : Douglas Kahn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262311625

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Noise, Water, Meat by Douglas Kahn Pdf

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts. This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first half of the century and the United States in the postwar years, Douglas Kahn explores aural activities in literature, music, visual arts, theater, and film. Placing aurality at the center of the history of the arts, he revisits key artistic questions, listening to the sounds that drown out the politics and poetics that generated them. Artists discussed include Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, John Cage, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov.

Author : Clinton Bennett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780304336821

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In Search of the Sacred by Clinton Bennett Pdf

This text traces the growth and development of two related disciplines, anthropology and the study of religions. Locating these disciplines within the intellectual climate of the 19th century, the study considers the contributions of scholars such as James George Frazer, F. Max Muller, Emile Durkheim, Mary Douglas and Clifford Geertz, within an historical framework. The author argues that both anthropologists and students of religion have abandoned an objective approach in favour of personal engagement with their subjects, replacing observation with conversation, monologue with dialogue, a text-based with people-based approach. He reveals how each discipline has influenced the other both in terms of methodology and by the provision of data. The book also explores the criticism levelled at both disciplines that they have aided colonial domination of the developing world.

Author : Philip Rieff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226716466

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The Triumph of the Therapeutic by Philip Rieff Pdf

"Philip Rieff has become out most learned and provocative critic of psychoanalytic thinking and of the compelling mind and character of its first proponent. Rieff's Freud: The Mind of the Moralist remains the sharpest exegesis yet to be done on the moral and intellectual implications of Freud's work. It was a critical masterpiece, worthy of the man who inspired it; and it is now followed by a work that suffers not at all in comparison. No review can do justice to the richness of The Triumph of the Therapeutic."—Robert Coles, New York Times Book Review "A triumphantly successful exploration of certain key themes in cultural life. Rieff's incidental remarks are not only illuminating in themselves; they suggest whole new areas of inquiry."—Alasdair MacIntyre, Guardian

Author : Paul Avis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567567185

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In Search of Authority by Paul Avis Pdf

Anglican theology has been a hotbed of debate about the issue of authority since the Reformation. What do we really appeal to when attempting to decide matters of doctrine, worship, ministry or ethics? The debate is very much alive today, between Evangelical, Liberal and Catholic Anglicans around the world. This proposed book focuses on the understanding of authority in Anglican theology. It looks at the way that Anglican theologians, in the past and today, have developed their theories of authority in relation to burning issues. Avis critiques them in a continuous dialogue or running commentary and set them in an ecumenical context, comparing Anglican positions with Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant ones. In each area - Bible, tradition, reason, experience -he sets out a new understanding of authority in a constructive and persuasive way, moving to a series of overall conclusions and recommendations. The sharp critiques of various positions will help to make it the subject of discussion and debate.

Author : Messay Kebede
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401200875

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Africa’s Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization by Messay Kebede Pdf

This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with freedom, that is, with myth-making understood as the inaugural act of cultural pluralism. The cultural condition of modernization emerges when the return to the past deploys the future.

Author : Gérald Gaillard
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0415228255

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The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists by Gérald Gaillard Pdf

This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on a national tradition or school of thought, outlining its central features and placing the anthropologists within their intellectual contexts. Fully indexed and cross-referenced, The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists will prove indispensable for students of anthropology.

Author : Dennis Tedlock
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1983-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081221143X

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The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation by Dennis Tedlock Pdf

Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.

Author : Andy Fisher
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781438444765

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Radical Ecopsychology, Second Edition by Andy Fisher Pdf

Expanded new edition of a classic examination of the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.