ISBN:
9781107263161
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 248 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology v.16
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930 - 2002 Outline of a theory of practice
DDC:
301.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Sozialanthropologie
Abstract:
Through Pierre Bourdieu's work in Kabylia (Algeria), he develops a theory on symbolic power
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Translator's foreword; 1 The Objective Limits of Objectivism; Section I: Analyses; From the mechanics of the model to the dialectic of strategies; From the"" rules"" of honour to the sense of honour; Practice and discourse about practice; The fallacies of the rule; Section II: Case study: parallel-cousin marriage; The state of the question; The functions of kinship: official kin and practical kin; Officializing strategies; Collective beliefs and white lies; The ordinary and the extra-ordinary
Description / Table of Contents:
Matrimonial strategies and social reproduction2 Structures and the Habitus; A false dilemma: mechanism and finalism; Structures, habitus and practices; The dialectic of objectification and embodiment; 3 Generative Schemes and Practical Logic:Invention Within Limits; The calendar and the synoptic illusion; Economy of logic; The body as geometer: cosmogonic practice; Union and separation; Thresholds and rites of passage; Reunion of contraries and denial; Making use of indeterminacy; The habitus and homologies; 4 Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power
Description / Table of Contents:
Doxa, orthodoxy, heterodoxySymbolic capital; Modes of domination; Notes; Index
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Description based upon print version of record
