Culture Amp Eurocentrism

A postcolonialist reading of the deployment of the concept of culture in literature, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies. It argues that modernity as understood in the Anglo-US episteme is structured around eurocentrism.

List of contents

Introduction: Culture as Problem / 1. Culture/Race/Nature: Arnold, Tylor / 2. (Civil) Society/Nature: Hobbes, Locke, Macaulay / 3. Imagination/Imitation: Shelley, Hobbes, Macaulay, Kipling, Malinowski. / 4. Culture/s: Williams, Leavis, Spencer / 5. '"Race"/Cultures: Du Bois, Fletcher, Boas, Turner, "Jefferson" / Conclusion: Modernity, Eurocentrism, Postcoloniality / Bibliography / Index

About the author

Qadri Ismail is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.

Summary

A postcolonialist reading of the deployment of the concept of culture in literature, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies. It argues that modernity as understood in the Anglo-US episteme is structured around eurocentrism.

Product details

• Authors: Ismail, Qadri Ismail, Qadri M. Ismail, Ismail Qadri
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781783486335
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-633-5
• Series: Disruptions; Disruptions
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Social groups, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Human Geography, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Social groups, communities and identities