The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire

by Charles W. Nuckolls

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299151249
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	10/15/1996
Series:	New Directions in Anthropological Writing Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

What does one say about an ethnographic work that successfully holds together Hegel and Kant, Freud and Weber, Lévi-Strauss and Marx . . .  interpretation and explanation, cognition and deep motivation, Rick Shweder and Howard Stein? Of such a book, one can confidently say that it is a remarkable achievement. Charles Nuckolls has produced such a book, one we will be learning from for years to come.”—David Spain, University of Washington

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