Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
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人类学和社会理论：文化、权力和行为主体
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2006
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Sherry B. Ortner
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Sherry B. Ortner
在《人类学与社会理论》一书中，获奖的人类学家雪莉·B。奥特纳利用她长期以来对文化实践理论的兴趣，重新思考了21世纪社会科学的文化，机构和主体性的关键概念。本书中的七篇理论和解释性文章都主张重新配置，而不是放弃文化概念。同样，他们都认为，一个依赖于社会存在的利益行动的理论，特别是实践理论，尤其是与皮埃尔·布迪厄的工作有关的理论，需要一个更发达的人类能动性概念和一个更丰富的人类主体性概念。奥特纳展示了社会理论如何必须建立在经典实践理论的基础上，并超越经典实践理论，以理解当代世界。
一些论文明确地反映了理论上的关注：机构和权力之间的关系，民族志研究抵抗的问题质量，以及产生主体性人类学的可能性。其他是应用奥特纳理论框架的民族志研究。在这些，她调查社会阶层的各个方面，着眼于种族和美国中产阶级身份之间的关系，阶级作为文化身份和社会调查中的分析类别的经常无形的性质，以及公共文化和媒体在创造X一代的阶级焦虑中发挥的作用。奥特纳的特点写的清晰，这些文章构成了一个主要的声明对未来的社会理论从一个领先的人类学家的时代。
In Anthropology and Social Theory 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.
Some 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.