Alexandra Shavyrina từ Jairampur Urf Nanka, Uttar Pradesh , India

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2018-07-19 21:30

Hành Trình Về Phương Đông (Bìa Cứng) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Baird T. Spalding

Still mulling over the impact of this book. Unlike most important anthro books these days, Graeber writes with clarity and wit in a language that people might actually speak to each other. Graeber is post-postmodern in the sense that he is all about building grand narratives if in a more critical and measured way than most. The intial review of recent exchange theory is helpful and his rereading of Mauss as a political thinker both simultaneously helped me put into words what always bugged me about The Gift and is a tour de force well tour of Kwakiutl and Maori symbolic universes. While I usually hate looking to the ancient greeks to explain things once and for all, his contrast of Parmenidian (and Platonic) in essence categorical positivism and Heraclitian process/action/pattern theories of self and society puts this contrast in a frame which western philosophy heads (those fuckers) might actually get. And there are some choice Foucault disses as well. Still I'm not so sure I buy his rereading of Marx. Or that his big discovery -- there is a fundamental distinction between hidden and displayed potentiality is 1. that earth shattering or 2. that universalizable. Also his conclusion is disappointing. He moves far too swiftly for my tastes from an abbreviated treatment of the "fetish" in african contexts (a treatment which is particularly impoverished compared to his approach to wampum or even the hau of the gift) to his own malagasy materials. He could be read as saying hey look my research is another example of the fetish which is probably not what he means. Still overall I recommend it pretty highly.

Người đọc Alexandra Shavyrina từ Jairampur Urf Nanka, Uttar Pradesh , India

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.