Understanding Cultures
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-631-22114-2 (ISBN)
Understanding Cultures confronts the major theoretical issues involved in cross-cultural interpretation. The book introduces students to rationality among the ancestors of anthropology before proceeding to a wide-ranging evaluation of the Anglo-American rationality debates. At issue is the opposition between scientific models of understanding human action and those models that emphasize human action as symbolic and meaningful, thus privileging an interpretive framework. This long-awaited second edition includes a new chapter on globalism and cultural diaspora that challenges conventional notions of bounded culture and bounded self and has important implications for refiguring the rationality debates, fieldwork, and cross-cultural interpretations more generally.
Robert C. Ulin is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Western Michigan University. His books include Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory, (1984) and Vintages and Traditions: An Ethnohistory of Southwest French Wine Cooperatives, (1996). He is also the author of numerous articles on social theory and the anthropology of Europe and is a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association.
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Anthropological Ancestors and Interpretation Theory: Boas, Malinowski, and Evans-Pritchard. 3. Peter Winch and Ordinary Language Philosophy. 4. The Neo-Popperians and the Logic of One Science: I.C. Jarvie and Robin Horton. 5. Ordinary Language Philosophy in Question: Steven Lukes and Alasdair MacIntyre. 6. Beyond Explanation and Understanding: The Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. 7. Hermeneutics and Critical Anthropology: The Synthesis of Practical and Critical Reason. 8. Modernism and Postmodernism in Anthropology. 9. Bounded Cultures - Bounded Selves: The Challenge of Cultural Diasporas. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.9.2001 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 538 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-631-22114-X / 063122114X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-631-22114-2 / 9780631221142 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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