Screen LibraryMeaning in action : outline of an integral theory of culture /
"In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds. This theory views culture simultane...
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Polity Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds. This theory views culture simultaneously in two ways: as a world of texts, tangible and shareable products of signifying acts, and as a space of practices, repeatable activities that produce, disseminate and interpret these clusters of meaning. Both approaches are developed into corresponding models of culture which, used together, are |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781509511259 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 1509511253 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9781509511242 (hardback : alkaline paper) 1509511245 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | GN357 |
| CLC: |
H0-05 G05 |
| Call Number: | G05/R243 |
| Contents: |
Introduction -- An outline of the theory and the book -- Looking for culture, looking at things -- Social/cultural -- Cultural communities -- The cultural subject -- Summary -- Meaning and signification -- The problem of reference -- Two kinds of concepts -- The internalization of meaning -- Claims and bids -- Culture as textuality -- Base-texts and result-texts -- The operational memory -- Organization of knowledge -- Standards and codes -- Culture as a network of practices -- The cultural role: functions and goals of a practice -- |