The anthropological study of class and consciousness

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The anthropological study of class and consciousness

edited by E. Paul Durrenberger

University Press of Colorado, c2012

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Presenting prehistoric, historic, and ethnographic data from Mongolia, China, Iceland, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States, this book offers a first step toward examining class as a central issue within anthropology. Contributors to this volume use the methods of historical materialism, cultural ecology, and political ecology to understand the realities of class and how they evolve. Five central ideas unify the collection: the objective basis for class in different social orders; people's understanding of class in relation to race and gender; the relation of ideologies of class to realities of class; the U.S. managerial middle-class denial of class and emphasis on meritocracy in relation to increasing economic insecurity; and, personal responses to economic insecurity and their political implications. Anthropologists who want to understand the nature and dynamics of culture must also understand the nature and dynamics of class. "The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness" addresses the role of the concept of class as an analytical construct in anthropology and how it relates to culture. Although issues of social hierarchy have been studied in anthropology, class has not often been considered as a central element. Yet a better understanding of its role in shaping culture, consciousness, and people's awareness of their social and natural world would in turn lead to better understanding of major trends in social evolution as well as contemporary society. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of anthropology, labour studies, ethnohistory and sociology.

目次

  • Preface
  • Nature, Marital Unity, & Contract in Modern Political Thought
  • Locke & the Invention of the Modern Family
  • Rousseau & the Romance of Family Life
  • Hegel's Modern Marital Unity: More Than a Contract, Less Than a Sacrament
  • In Hegel's Shadow: French Sociologists & Positivist Defences of the Family
  • The City & the Soul Mate: Mill's Late Liberal Vision
  • Marx, Engels, & the Abolition of the Family
  • Freud, Russell, & the Liberated Family
  • Feminism & the Family
  • Positivism Supplemented: Anatomy, Evolution, & the Family
  • A Second Sailing?: Recovering Marital Unity & the Purposes of the Family
  • What Is to Be Thought?: Tensions & Lessons
  • Index.

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