The ethnological imagination
Subtitle: a cross-cultural critique of modernity
By: Fuyuki Kurasawa.
Series: Contradictions ;; v. 21; Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.) ;; 21.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Ethnology -- Philosophy; Ethnology -- Methodology; Marxist anthropology; Structural anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Western social theory and the ethnological imagination; title: On civilized savagery : Rousseau and the birth of the ethnological imagination; title: Disenchanting the commodity : Marx and the defetishization of capitalism; title: The view from the magical garden : Weber's comparative sociology of the modern ethos; title: In the shadow of the other : Durkheim's anthropological sociology; title: Mythologizing the modern West : Lévi-Strauss's view from afar; title: An ethnology by other means : Foucault's critique from the outside; title: Conclusion : the ethnological imagination then and now.