The Concept(s) of Culture

Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 35-61

  Sewell, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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References (43)

1. Robert Brightman, "Forget Culture: Replacement, Transcendence, Relexification," Cultural Anthropology 10 (1995): 509-46.
2. William H. Sewell, Jr., Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848 (Cambridge, 1980).
3. Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (New York, 1973).
4. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore, 1976).
5. H. Aram Veeser, ed., The New Historicism (New York, 1989).
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8. Geertz, Interpretation of Cultures.
9. Lila Abu-Lughod, "Writing against Culture," in Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present, ed. Richard G. Fox (Santa Fe, 1991), pp. 137-62.
10. Brightman, "Forget Culture," p. 510.
11. James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge, Mass., 1988), p. 10.
12. Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, rev. ed. (London, 1983), p. 87.
13. Raymond Williams, Culture and Society: 1780-1950 (New York, 1958).
14. Williams, Keywords, pp. 90-91.
15. E. R Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (London, 1963)
16. Paul Willis, Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (New York, 1981).
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18. $Clifford Geertz$ "Common Sense as a Cultural System" and "Art as a Cultural System," in Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (New York, 1983), pp. 73-93/ 94-120.
19. David M. Schneider's most influential book is American Kinship: A Cultural Account (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1968).
20. David M. Schneider, "Notes toward a Theory of Culture," in Meaning in Anthropology, ed. Keith H. Basso and Henry A. Selby (Albuquerque, 1976), pp. 197-220.
21. Victor W. Turner, The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual (Ithaca, N.Y., 1967)
22. Sherry Ortner, "Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties," Comparative Studies in History and Society 26 (1984): 126-66
23. Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, trans. Richard Nice (Cambridge, 1977)
24. Joan W. Scott has been at the center of much of this polemic. "On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History," International Labor and Working Class History, no. 31 (spring 1987): 1-13
25. Gareth Stedman Jones, Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982 (Cambridge, 1984).
26. John Toews, "Intellectual History after the Linguistic Turn: The Autonomy of Meaning and the Irreducibility of Experience," American Historical Review 92 (1987): 879-907
27. Laura Lee Downs criticizes Scott in "If 'Woman' Is Just an Empty Category, Then Why Am I Afraid to Walk Alone at Night? Identity Politics Meets the Postmodern Subject," Comparative Studies in Society and History 35 (1993): 414-37
28. Brian D. Palmer, Descent into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History (Philadelphia, 1990).
29. Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History (New York, 1994)' PP- 198-237.
30. Ann Swidler, "Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies," American Sociological Review 51 (1984): 273-86.
31. Schneider, "Notes toward a Theory of Culture," 214.
32. William H. Sewell, Jr., "Toward a Post-Materialist Rhetoric for Labor History," in Rethinking Labor History: Essays on Discourse and Class Analysis, ed. Lenard R. Berlanstein (Urbana, 111., 1993), 15-38.
33. Claudio Lomnitz-Adler, "Concepts for the Study of Regional Culture," American Ethnologist 18 (1991): 195-214.
34. Marshall Sahlins, Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities (Ann Arbor, 1981), esp. pp. 67-72, and Islands of History, pp. 136-56
35. William H. Sewell, Jr., "Political Events as Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille," Theory and Society 26 (1996): 841-81.
36. Turner, Forest of Symbols, pp. 41-43
37. James Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven, 1985)
38. Renato I. Rosaldo, Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-19/4: A Study in Society and History (Stanford, 1980).
39. Sherry B. Ortner, "Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal," Comparative Studies in Society and History 37 (1995): 173-93.
40. Lisa Wedeen, Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (Chicago, forthcoming, 1999).
41. Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, ed. and trans. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (New York, 1971).
42. Stuart Hall, The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left (London, 1988)
43. David D. Laitin, Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change among the Yoruba (Chicago, 1986).