• AIU
  • Tony Wilmot Memorial Library

The ethnological imagination :

Kurasawa, Fuyuki.

The ethnological imagination : a cross-cultural critique of modernity / Fuyuki Kurasawa. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004. - xiv, 249 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Contradictions ; v. 21 . - Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 21. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-239) and index.

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 : Le vi-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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