Culture and Practical Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Practical Reason write by Marshall Sahlins. This book was released on 1976. Culture and Practical Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which we tend to view as purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like. . . ."—Robert McKinley, Reviews in Anthropology
Culture and Practical Reason
Culture and Practical Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Practical Reason write by Marshall David Sahlins. This book was released on 1978. Culture and Practical Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Culture and Practical Reason
Culture and Practical Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Practical Reason write by Marshall Sahlins. This book was released on 2013-11-22. Culture and Practical Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which we tend to view as purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like. . . ."—Robert McKinley, Reviews in Anthropology
Culture in Practice
Culture in Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture in Practice write by Marshall Sahlins. This book was released on 2000. Culture in Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays that span the career of a prominent anthropologist and address the fundamental questions of the field. Culture in Practice collects the academic and political writings from the 1960s through the 1990s of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. More than a compilation, Culture in Practice unfolds as an intellectual autobiography. The book opens with Sahlins's early general studies of culture, economy, and human nature. It then moves to his reportage and reflections on the war in Vietnam and the antiwar movement, the event that most strongly affected his thinking about cultural specificity. Finally, it offers his more historical and globally aware works on indigenous peoples, especially those of the Pacific islands. Sahlins exposes the cultural specificity of the West, developing a critical account of the distinctive ways that we act in and understand the world. The book includes a play/review of Robert Ardrey's sociobiology, essays on "native" consumption patterns of food and clothes in America and the West, explorations of how two thousand years of Western cosmology affect our understanding of others, and ethnohistorical accounts of how cultural orders of Europeans and Pacific islanders structured the historical experiences of both. Throughout, Sahlins offers his own way of thinking about the anthropological project. To transcend critically our native categories in order to understand how other peoples have historically constructed their modes of existence--even now, in the era of globalization--is the great challenge of contemporary anthropology.
The Mana of Mass Society
The Mana of Mass Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mana of Mass Society write by William Mazzarella. This book was released on 2017-10-24. The Mana of Mass Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We often invoke the “magic” of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In The Mana of Mass Society, William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our understanding of publicity, propaganda, love, and power? Mazzarella reconsiders the concept of “mana,” which served in early anthropology as a troubled bridge between “primitive” ritual and the fascination of mass media. Thinking about mana, Mazzarella shows, means rethinking some of our most fundamental questions: What powers authority? What in us responds to it? Is the mana that animates an Aboriginal ritual the same as the mana that energizes a revolutionary crowd, a consumer public, or an art encounter? At the intersection of anthropology and critical theory, The Mana of Mass Society brings recent conversations around affect, sovereignty, and emergence into creative contact with classic debates on religion, charisma, ideology, and aesthetics.
