Subject: introduction Date: Thu, 30 Nov 95 14:39:43 MST From: "Alan Smart" <asmart-AT-acs.ucalgary.ca> In response to the suggestion that we introduce ourselves, I am an anthropologist teaching at the Univ. of Calgary in Canada. I have done field research in Hong Kong and China. My interest in Bourdieu stems primarily from work in political economy and practices which involve conversions in areas of underregulated or ambiguous property rights (sales of squatter dwellings, biotechnology, capitalist investment in socialist China, etc.). Currently, neoclassical economists are involved in efforts to extend their approaches to the fields of the other social sciences, and it seemed to me that Bourdieu's project to develop an economy of practices offered an alternative perspective which would demonstrate that the economy in the narrow sense itself depended upon symbolic and social practices. Alan Smart Dept. of Anthropology University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada asmart-AT-acs.ucalgary.ca
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