The Logic of Practice

by Pierre Bourdieu

Book Overview

Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object of study is a particular instance of the relationship between knowing and doing, interpreting and using, symbolic mastery and practical mastery-or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804720118
• ISBN13: 9780804720113
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"