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Author: Christopher Bracken Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226069877 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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Variously described as an exchange of gifts, a destruction of property, a system of banking, and a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is considered one of the founding concepts of anthropology. However, the author here dismisses such a theory, arguing the concept was invented by 19th-century Canadian law for the purpose of control. 9 halftones.
Author: Christopher Bracken Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226069877 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
Variously described as an exchange of gifts, a destruction of property, a system of banking, and a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is considered one of the founding concepts of anthropology. However, the author here dismisses such a theory, arguing the concept was invented by 19th-century Canadian law for the purpose of control. 9 halftones.
Author: J. B. McCullagh Publisher: Andesite Press ISBN: 9781376129618 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 26
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Author: Christopher Bracken Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226069923 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 277
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During the Enlightenment, Western scholars racialized ideas, deeming knowledge based on reality superior to that based on ideality. Scholars labeled inquiries into ideality, such as animism and soul-migration, “savage philosophy,” a clear indicator of the racism motivating the distinction between the real and the ideal. In their view, the savage philosopher mistakes connections between signs for connections between real objects and believes that discourse can have physical effects—in other words, they believe in magic. Christopher Bracken’s Magical Criticism brings the unacknowledged history of this racialization to light and shows how, even as we have rejected ethnocentric notions of “the savage,” they remain active today in everything from attacks on postmodernism to Native American land disputes. Here Bracken reveals that many of the most influential Western thinkers dabbled in savage philosophy, from Marx, Nietzsche, and Proust, to Freud, C. S. Peirce, and Walter Benjamin. For Bracken, this recourse to savage philosophy presents an opportunity to reclaim a magical criticism that can explain the very real effects created by the discourse of historians, anthropologists, philosophers, the media, and governments.
Author: Christopher Bracken
Author: Christopher Bracken
Author: Potlatch Corporation
Author: Potlatch Corporation. Northwest Paper Division
Author: J. B. McCullagh
Author: J. B. McCullagh
Author: Potlatch Corporation
Author: James Benjamin McCullagh
Author: Janice C. Johnson
Author: Christopher Bracken
Author: George Clutesi