The Other Mirror: Grand Theory Through the Lens of Latin America

by Fernando López-Alves

Book Overview

If social science's "cultural turn" has taught us anything, it is that knowledge is constrained by the time and place in which it is produced. In response, scholars have begun to reassess social theory from the standpoints of groups and places outside of the European context upon which most grand theory is based. Here a distinguished group of scholars reevaluates widely accepted theories of state, property, race, and economics against Latin American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691050171
• ISBN13: 9780691050171
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"