Does theory travel? Area studies and cultural studies

Africa Today

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 281-296

  Karp, Ivan ^a  

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1. This paper was initially drafted at the request of the Ford Foundation as a comment on a paper written by Carolyn Williams on the subject "Cultural Studies and Area Studies."
2. Robert Bates, "Area Studies and Political Science: Rupture and Possible Synthesis," Africa Today 44, no. 2 (1997): 123-142.
3. Angelique Haugerud, "Editor's Introduction," Africa Today 44, no. 2 (1997): 111-122, 117.
4. I include the "softer" social science disciplines that use ethnographic methods and study culture and expressive forms under the heading "arts and humanities disciplines."
5. William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, D. Paley, ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).
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7. John Tomlinson, Cultural Imperialism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), p. 1.
8. William Arens and Ivan Karp, eds., The Creativity of Power: Cosmology and Action in African Societies (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989).
9. Stuart Hall, "Encoding/Decoding," in Stuart Hall et al., eds., Culture, Language and Media (London: Routledge, 1992).
10. Paul Willis, Learning to Labour (London: Gower Publishing, 1977).
11. Personal communication.
12. C. Wright Mills, "The Cultural Apparatus," in Irving Louis Horowitz, ed., Power, Politics, and People; The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills (New York: Oxford University Press, 1963).
13. Hall, "Encoding/Decoding."
14. Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977).
15. Frank R. Leavis, The Great Tradition (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983).
16. Edward W. Said, The World, the Text, and the Critic (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983).
17. Edward Said, "Traveling Theory Reconsidered," in Robert M. Polhemus and Roger Henkle, eds., Critical Reconstructions (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994).
18. Albert O. Hirschman, "The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding," in Paul Rabinow and William Sullivan, eds., Interpretive Social Science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
19. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "The Post-Colonial Critic," in Sarah Harasym, ed. (with interviewees Rashmi Bhatnagar, Lola Chatterjee, and Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan), The Post-Colonial Critic (London: Routledge, 1990).
20. Ibid., p. 67.
21. Said, "Traveling Theory Reconsidered." Africa Today 44, 3 (1997), 297-308