Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century

by Christopher Herbert

Book Overview

Few ideas are as important and pervasive in the discourse of the twentieth century as the idea of culture. Yet culture, Christopher Herbert contends, is an idea laden from its inception with ambiguity and contradiction. In Culture and Anomie, Christopher Herbert conducts an inquiry into the historical emergence of the modern idea of culture that is at the same time an extended critical analysis of the perplexities and suppressed associations underlying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226327396
• ISBN13: 9780226327396
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"