The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire
Published on 30. October 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-299-15124-9 (ISBN)
Description
Offering a cognitive and psychoanalytic approach, this work asks why culture is a problem that can never be solved. It develops a theory of cultural dialectics based on the concept of paradox, in which it shows how ambivalence and conflicts are at the heart of all cultural knowledge systems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
25 b&w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-15124-9 (9780299151249)
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Persons
Charles W. Nuckolls is assistant professor of anthropology at Emory University. He is the editor of The Cultural Construction of Diagnostic Categories: The Case of American Psychiatry and Siblings in South Asia: Brothers and Sisters in Cultural Context. He is also the author of Culture: A Problem that Cannot Be Solved, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.