Author: Marvin Harris
Publisher: AltaMira Press
ISBN: 0759116962
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential starting point for explaining the science of culture to students. Now available again after a hiatus, this edition of Cultural Materialism contains the complete text of the original book plus a new introduction by Orna and Allen Johnson that updates his ideas and examines the impact that the book and theory have had on anthropological theorizing.
Author: Marvin Harris
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The best known, most often cited history of anthropological theory is finally available in paperback! First published in 1968, Harris's book has been cited in over 1,000 works and is one of the key documents explaining cultural materialism, the theory associated with Harris's work. This updated edition includes the complete 1968 text plus a new introduction by the author, which discusses the impact of the book and highlights some of the major trends in anthropological theory since its original publication. RAT, as it is affectionately known to three decades of graduate students, comprehensively traces the history of anthropology and anthropological theory, culminating in a strong argument for the use of a scientific, behaviorally-based, ethic approach to the understanding of human culture known as cultural materialism
Author: Lawrence A. Kuznar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317251253
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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"A thought-provoking, stimulating volume on the past, present and future of cultural materialism that is both laudatory of Harris' research strategy and critical of it." Paul Shankman, University of Colorado One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of cultural materialism. This book accessibly analyzes Harris's theories and their important legacies today. The chapters explore cultural materialism's epistemology and its relation to rational choice theory, Darwinian social science, and population pressures. The authors assess recent attempts to extend and reformulate cultural materialism and highlight cross-cultural, archaeological, and ethnographic applications of cultural materialism today.
Author: John Brannigan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349266221
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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New historicism and cultural materialism emerged in the early 1980s as prominent literary theories and came to represent a revival of interest in history and in historicising literature. Their proponents rejected both formalist criticism and earlier attempts to read literature in its historical context and defined new ways of thinking about literature in relation to history. This study explains the development of these theories and demonstrates both their uses and weaknesses as critical practices. The potential future direction for the theories is explored and the controversial debates about their validity in literary studies are discussed.
Author: Hywel Dix
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783165758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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This volume is not only a detailed look at some of the writing produced in Scotland and Wales in the years surrounding political devolution, it also include a look at the ways in which difference sub-cultural commuities use fiction to renegotiate their relationships with the British whole.
Author: John Higgins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135630127
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Raymond Williams' prolific output is increasingly recognised as the most influential body of work on literary and cultural studies in the past fifty years. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the theoretical and historical context of Williams' thinking on literature, politics and culture. John Higgins traces: * Williams' intellectual development * the related growth of a New Left cultural politics * the origins of the theory and practice of cultural materialism. Raymond Williams is an astonishing achievement and will challenge many received ideas about Williams' work.
Author: Andrew Milner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004314160
Category : Historical materialism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Sociology and literature -- The 'English' ideology: literary criticism in England and Australia -- The protestant epic and the spirit of capitalism -- On the beach: apocalyptic hedonism and the origins of postmodernism -- Loose canons and fallen angels -- Dissenting, plebeian, but belonging, nonetheless: Bourdieu and Williams -- Deconstructing national literature: comparative literature, cultural studies and critical theory -- It's the conscience collective, stupid: philosophical aesthetics and the sociology of art -- Science fiction and the literary field -- World systems and world science fiction -- Considerations on English marxism -- Literature, history and post-althusserianism -- The revolutions in favour of capital -- Cultural materialism, culturalism and post-culturalism: the legacy of Raymond Williams -- Cultural studies and cultural hegemony: comparing Britain and Australia -- Class and cultural production: the intelligentsia as a social class -- Left out? Marxism, the new left and cultural studies -- From media imperialism to semioterrorism -- Utopia and science fiction in Raymond Williams -- Darker cities: urban dystopia and science fiction cinema -- Postmodern gothic: Buffy, the X-files and the Clinton presidency -- Framing catastrophe: the problem of ending in dystopian fiction -- Archaeologies of the future: Jameson's utopia or Orwell's dystopia? -- Time travelling: or, how (not) to periodise a genre -- The sea and eternal summer: an Australian apocalypse -- Ice, fire and flood: science fiction and the anthropocene / Andrew Milner, J.R. Burgmann, Rjurik Davidson, Susan Cousin
Author: Neema Parvini
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441193936
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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A complete critical introduction to New Historicist and Cultural Materialist approaches that have dominated contemporary Shakespeare theory, as well as alternative new directions.
Author: Alan Sinfield
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134143265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as a body of ongoing argument and as it informs particular works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, especially in relation to sexuality in early-modern England and queer theory. The book has several interlocking preoccupations: theories of textuality and reading the political location of Shakespearean plays and the organisation of literary culture today the operation of state power in the early-modern period and the scope for dissidence the sex/gender system in that period and the application of queer theory in history. These preoccupations are explored in and around a range of works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Throughout the book Sinfield re-presents cultural materialism, framing it not as a set of propositions, as has often been done, but as a cluster of unresolved problems. His brilliant, lucid and committed readings demonstrate that the ‘unfinished business’ of cultural materialism - and Sinfield’s work in particular - will long continue to produce new questions and challenges for the fields of Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies.
Author: Scott Wilson
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631185338
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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In recent years the left has transformed traditional approaches to literature and culture. Critical movements such as Cultural Materialism and New Historicism have succeeded to the point where they now constitute the new academic order. Scott Wilson explains and demonstrates the power of these modes of critical enquiry and explores their limitations. His book provides a forceful critical engagement with major figures in the field - Francis Barker, Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Dollimore, Terry Eagleton, Jonathan Goldberg, Stephen Greenblatt, Alan Sinfield. He also shows how cultural materialism is applied in practice
