{"product_id":"cultural-dialectics-of-knowledge-and-desire-paperback","title":"Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles W. Nuckolls\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Why is culture a problem that can never be solved? Charles W. Nuckolls poses this question to his readers, and offers a genuinely synthetic approach to culture that is both cognitive and psychoanalytic. He develops a theory of cultural dialectics based on the concept of paradox, in which he shows how ambivalence and conflicts, and the desire to resolve them, are at the heart of all cultural knowledge systems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nuckolls combines and synthesizes the ideas of Max Weber and Sigmund Freud--major influences in the cognitive and psychoanalytic paradigms--and develops the concept basic to both: the dialectic. He recovers the legacy of Gregory Bateson, who provided the foundation for a theory of paradox in culture. With his integrated theory, Nuckolls explains the conflicts of knowledge and desire in a South Asian knowledge system, in particular the religious mythology and divinatory system of the Jalaris, a Telugu-speaking fishing caste on the southeastern coast of India. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This provocative book allows us to rethink the relationship between the currently competing discourses in psychological and cultural anthropology, and at the same time offers a general synthetic theory of cultural dynamics. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Charles W. Nuckolls is assistant professor of anthropology at Emory University. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Construction of Diagnostic Categories: The Case of American Psychiatry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSiblings in South Asia: Brothers and Sisters in Cultural Context\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eCulture: A Problem that Cannot Be Solved\u003c\/i\u003e, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8.96 x 6.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53057050804448,"sku":"9780299151249","price":32.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/m8e__iK8O49780299151249.webp?v=1781372675","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/cultural-dialectics-of-knowledge-and-desire-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}