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Critics Against Culture


Critics Against Culture
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Author : Richard Handler
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2005

Critics Against Culture written by Richard Handler and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


A collection of essays on the history of anthropology focused on Benedict, Boss, Sapir, and modernist thought. It explores the roots of anthropology's involvement with the study of American society. They focus on the critique of mass society and the history of the culture concept and examine Boasian anthropologists as critics of mass society.



Against Culture


Against Culture
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Author : Kirk Dombrowski
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01

Against Culture written by Kirk Dombrowski and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Social Science categories.


In a small Tlingit village in 1992, newly converted members of an all-native church started a bonfire of "non-Christian" items including, reportedly, native dancing regalia. The burnings recalled an earlier century in which church converts in the same village burned totem poles, and stirred long simmering tensions between native dance groups and fundamentalist Christian churches throughout the region. This book traces the years leading up to the most recent burnings and reveals the multiple strands of social tension defining Tlingit and Haida life in Southeast Alaska today. ø Author Kirk Dombrowksi roots these tensions in a history of misunderstanding and exploitation of native life, including, most recently, the consequences of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. He traces the results of economic upheaval, changes in dependence on timber and commercial fishing, and differences over the meaning of contemporary native culture that lie beneath current struggles. His cogent, highly readable analysis shows how these local disputes reflect broader problems of negotiating culture and Native American identity today. Revealing in its ethnographic details, arresting in its interpretive insights, Against Culture raises important practical and theoretical implications for the understanding of indigenous cultural and political processes.



Against Meritocracy


Against Meritocracy
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Author : Jo Littler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-16

Against Meritocracy written by Jo Littler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-16 with Social Science categories.


Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the top’. This idea is one of the most prevalent social and cultural tropes of our time, as palpable in the speeches of politicians as in popular culture. In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for contemporary neoliberal culture – and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new forms of social division. Against Meritocracy is split into two parts. Part I explores the genealogies of meritocracy within social theory, political discourse and working cultures. It traces the dramatic U-turn in meritocracy’s meaning, from socialist slur to a contemporary ideal of how a society should be organised. Part II uses a series of case studies to analyse the cultural pull of popular ‘parables of progress’, from reality TV to the super-rich and celebrity CEOs, from social media controversies to the rise of the ‘mumpreneur’. Paying special attention to the role of gender, ‘race’ and class, this book provides new conceptualisations of the meaning of meritocracy in contemporary culture and society.



Memory Against Culture


Memory Against Culture
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Author : Johannes Fabian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Memory Against Culture written by Johannes Fabian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.


Recent essays by prominent anthropologist on questions of time, memory, and ethnography.



Reading Against Culture


Reading Against Culture
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Author : David Pollack
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1992

Reading Against Culture written by David Pollack and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.




Memory Against Culture


Memory Against Culture
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Author : Johannes Fabian
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2007

Memory Against Culture written by Johannes Fabian and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.


Recent essays by prominent anthropologist on questions of time, memory, and ethnography.



Culture And The Radical Conscience


Culture And The Radical Conscience
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Author : Eugene Goodheart
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2001-01-31

Culture And The Radical Conscience written by Eugene Goodheart and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-31 with Social Science categories.


"A highly cogent, powerfully reasoned statement in defense of culture against its latter-day detractors."-Philip Rahv "A lively, tough, and learned brief for 'high culture' as the indispensable foundation of a university education. [Goodheart's] book deserves the scrupulous attention of everyone troubled by the seemingly irreversible degradation of standards in American intellectual life today."-Pearl K. Bell, the New Leader Debates on culture, politics, and the university have hardly abated since the 1960s when the radical assault on the authority of culture first challenged the classical conception of higher education with imperious demands for relevance and ideological correctness. Since then, campus unrest on the part of students has given way to a radicalized faculty characterized by contempt for high culture, fetishization of pop culture, and increasing absorption by feminism and identity politics. While this development has not gone unchallenged, most have dismissed opponents of traditional scholarship as intellectual nihilists and anarchists. In contrast, Eugene Goodheart's Culture and the Radical Conscience recognizes the moral and cultural roots of radical and utopian tradition while deploring its tendency toward intolerance and narrowness. Goodheart defends the study of serious literature for its interplay of aesthetic response, alertness to political theme, and historical awareness. Eugene Goodheart is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University. His books include Modernism and the Critical Spirit (available from Transaction), The Skeptic Disposition, Desire and Its Discontents, The Reign of Ideology, and Does Literary Studies Have a Future?



Culture Against Man


Culture Against Man
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Author : Jules Henry
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1965

Culture Against Man written by Jules Henry and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Social Science categories.




Against Art And Culture


Against Art And Culture
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Author : Liam Dee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

Against Art And Culture written by Liam Dee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Arts categories.


Offering a negative definition of art in relation to the concept of culture, this book establishes the concept of 'art/culture' to describe the unity of these two fields around named-labour, idealised creative subjectivity and surplus signification. Contending a conceptual and social reality of a combined 'art/culture', this book demonstrates that the failure to appreciate the dynamic totality of art and culture by its purported negators is due to almost all existing critiques of art and culture being defences of a 'true' art or culture against 'inauthentic' manifestations, and art thus ultimately restricting creativity to the service of the bourgeois commodity regime. While the evidence that art/culture enables commodification has long been available, the deduction that art/culture itself is fundamentally of the world of commodification has failed to gain traction. By applying a nuanced analysis of both commodification and the larger systems of ideological power, the book considers how the 'surplus' of art/culture is used to legitimate the bourgeois status quo rather than unravel it. It also examines possibilities for a post-art/culture world based on both existing practices that challenge art/culture identity as well as speculations on the integration of play and aesthetics into general social life. An out-and-out negation of art and culture, this book offers a unique contribution to the cultural critique landscape.



Against The Flow


Against The Flow
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Author : Peter Abbs
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2003

Against The Flow written by Peter Abbs and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Arts categories.


This book calls for education to become an end in itself, as opposed to the means to an end, and for a place to be found in contemporary education for the spiritual, the aesthetic and the ethical.