Anthropology and Social Theory : Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject

在人類學和社會理論中，獲獎的人類學家Sherry B. Ortner借鑒了她對文化實踐理論的長期興趣，重新思考二十一世紀社會科學的文化、代理和主體性的關鍵概念。本卷中的七篇理論和解釋性文章都主張重新配置而不是放棄文化概念。

同樣，他們都認為，一種依賴於社會感興趣行為的理論 - 特別是與Pierre Bourdieu工作相關的實踐理論 - 需要更加發達的人類機構概念和更豐富的人類主體性概念。Ortner 展示了社會理論必須如何建立並超越經典實踐理論才能理解當代世界。一些論文明確地反映了理論上的關注、代理與權力之間的關係，人格學研究中存在的問題質量，以及產生主體性人類學的可能性。其他人則是應用奧特納理論框架的人種學研究。

在這些方面，她研究社會階層的各個方面，研究美國種族和中產階級身份之間的關係，階級作為文化身份和社會調查中分析範疇常常無形的本質，以及公共角色。文化和媒體在創造X世代的階級焦慮中發揮作用。這些文章以Ortner特有的清晰度寫成，構成了我們這個時代領先的人類學家對社會理論未來的重要論述。

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.

  Sherry B. Ortner  (Autor)

Publisher:Duke University Press Books 

ISBN:    978-0822338642 

原價   US 22.95 台幣價 NT$770