The ethnological imagination : a cross-cultural critique of modernity
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The ethnological imagination : a cross-cultural critique of modernity
(Contradictions of modernity, v. 21)
University of Minnesota Press, c2004
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Note
Bibliography: p. 209-239
Includes index
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Contents of Works
- Introduction : Western social theory and the ethnological imagination
- On civilized savagery : Rousseau and the birth of the ethnological imagination
- Disenchanting the commodity : Marx and the defetishization of capitalism
- The view from the magical garden : Weber's comparative sociology of the modern ethos
- In the shadow of the other : Durkheim's anthropological sociology
- Mythologizing the modern West : Lévi-Strauss's view from afar
- An ethnology by other means : Foucault's critique from the outside
- Conclusion : the ethnological imagination then and now
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Fuyuki Kurasawa unearths what he terms "the ethological imagination," a substantial countercurrent of thought that interprets and contests Western modernity's existing social order through comparison and contrast to a non-Western other. Kurasawa traces and critiques the writings of some of the key architects of this way of thinking: Jean-Jaques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Michel Foucault.
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