The ethnological imagination : a cross-cultural critique of modernity - Kurasawa, Fuyuki (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-239) and index.
Keywords: Ethnology -- Philosophy; Ethnology -- Methodology; Marxist anthropology; Structural anthropology