{"product_id":"anthropology-and-social-theory-culture-power-and-the-acting-subject-paperback-softback-9780822338642","title":"Anthropology and Social Theory; Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822338642","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAnthropology and Social Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCulture, Power, and the Acting Subject\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSherry B. Ortner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822338642\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 November 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.295 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“An important and especially usable collection by one of the most influential essayists in anthropology, introduced by a lucid and original review of key concepts as they have been applied to the remarkable range of Sherry Ortner’s research achievements. Her response to recent challenges to the idea of culture is alone worth the price of the book.”-George Marcus, University of California, Irvine\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“At once challenging and admirably accessible, these essays trace the thinking of one of anthropology’s most notable practitioners as she-and her discipline-wrestles with key conundrums facing the late-modern social sciences.”-Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This is vintage Ortner. No one else writes anthropological theory so clear, so down-to-earth, or so accessible to non-anthropologists.”-William H. Sewell Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eLogics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAnthropology and Social Theory\u003c\/i\u003e the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive essays in this volume each advocate reconfiguring, rather than abandoning, the concept of culture. Similarly, they all suggest that a theory which depends on the interested action of social beings-specifically practice theory, associated especially with the work of Pierre Bourdieu-requires a more developed notion of human agency and a richer conception of human subjectivity. Ortner shows how social theory must both build upon and move beyond classic practice theory in order to understand the contemporary world.\u003cp\u003eSome of the essays reflect explicitly on theoretical concerns: the relationship between agency and power, the problematic quality of ethnographic studies of resistance, and the possibility of producing an anthropology of subjectivity. Others are ethnographic studies that apply Ortner’s theoretical framework. In these, she investigates aspects of social class, looking at the relationship between race and middle-class identity in the United States, the often invisible nature of class as a cultural identity and as an analytical category in social inquiry, and the role that public culture and media play in the creation of the class anxieties of Generation X. Written with Ortner’s characteristic lucidity, these essays constitute a major statement about the future of social theory from one of the leading anthropologists of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Updating Practice Theory 1\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: Reading America: Preliminary Notes on Class and Culture 19\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal 42\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: Identities: The Hidden Life of Class 63\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: Generation X: Anthropology in a Media-Saturated World 80\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: Subjectivity and Cultural Critique 107\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six: Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency 129\u003cbr\u003e Notes 155\u003cbr\u003e References Cited 167\u003cbr\u003e Index 181\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670768283928,"sku":"9780822338642","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/anthropology-and-social-theory-culture-power-and-the-acting-subject-paperback-softback-9780822338642","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}