num_pages: 256
description: Offering a cognitive and psychoanalytic approach, this work asks why culture is a problem that can never be solved. It develops a theory of cultural dialectics based on the concept of paradox, in which it shows how ambivalence and conflicts are at the heart of all cultural knowledge systems.
language: English
title: The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire
titlecomplete: The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire (New Directions in Anthropological Writing)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press