"Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the principle which negotiates between objective structures and practices, Bourdieu is able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world. The author draws on his fieldwork in Kabylia (Algeria) to illustrate his theoretical propositions. With detailed study of matrimonial strategies and the role of rite and myth, he analyses the dialectical process of the 'incorporation of structures' and the objectification of habitus, whereby social formations tend to reproduce themselves. A rigorous consistent materialist approach lays the foundations for a theory of symbolic capital and, through analysis of the different modes of domination, a theory of symbolic power."--Publisher description

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Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique

Pierre Bourdieu, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Cambridge studies in social anthropology -- 16, Cambridge studies in social anthropology -- no. 16, Cambridge, New York, England, 2006

Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology -- 16, Cambridge, New York, Massachusetts, 2006

Cambridge studies in social anthropology, no. 16, Cambridge, U.K, 1977

Cambridge studies in social anthropology, no. 16, Cambridge, U.K, 2015

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Reprint, US, 1977

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Translation with revisions of Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Victoria University Library cop. 2 is 2007 printing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation with revisions of Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique.

Translation with revisions of Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover 2
Half Title 3
Title Page 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
Dedication 8
Translator's foreword 9
1 The Objective Limits of Objectivism 11
Section I: Analyses 11
From the mechanics of the model to the dialectic of strategies 13
From the" rules" of honour to the sense of honour 20
Practice and discourse about practice 26
The fallacies of the rule 32
Section II: Case study: parallel-cousin marriage 40
The state of the question 42
The functions of kinship: official kin and practical kin 43
Officializing strategies 48
Collective beliefs and white lies 53
The ordinary and the extra-ordinary 62
Matrimonial strategies and social reproduction 68
2 Structures and the Habitus 82
A false dilemma: mechanism and finalism 82
Structures, habitus and practices 88
The dialectic of objectification and embodiment 97
3 Generative Schemes and Practical Logic: Invention Within Limits 106
The calendar and the synoptic illusion 107
Economy of logic 119
The body as geometer: cosmogonic practice 124
Union and separation 134
Thresholds and rites of passage 140
Reunion of contraries and denial 142
Making use of indeterminacy 150
The habitus and homologies 153
4 Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power 169
Doxa, orthodoxy, heterodoxy 169
Symbolic capital 181
Modes of domination 193
Notes 208
Index 250

A translation of the study in which Bourdieu develops the theory for his empirical work, based on fieldwork in Kabylia, Algeria.

2014-07-23