The ethnological imagination : a cross-cultural critique of modernity /
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| Author / Creator: | Kurasawa, Fuyuki. |
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| Imprint: | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004. |
| Description: | xiv, 249 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contradictions ; v. 21 Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 21. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5341357 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Western Social Theory and the Ethnological Imagination
- 1.. On Civilized Savagery: Rousseau and the Birth of the Ethnological Imagination
- 2.. Disenchanting the Commodity: Marx and the Defetishization of Capitalism
- 3.. The View from the Magical Garden: Weber's Comparative Sociology of the Modern Ethos
- 4.. In the Shadow of the Other: Durkheim's Anthropological Sociology
- 5.. Mythologizing the Modern West: Levi-Strauss's View from Afar
- 6.. An Ethnology by Other Means: Foucault's Critique from the Outside
- Conclusion: The Ethnological Imagination Then and Now
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index