File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1996/96-07-02.141, message 56


Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:24:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Clark Eckert <rceckert-AT-umich.edu>
Subject: "doxic" tradition


In "The Political Economy of Lakota Consciousness" by Thomas Biosli in 
_The Political Economy of North American Indians_ edited by John H. 
Moore (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1993) Biosli makes a statement which is 
puzzling to me.  

Biosli states: "The wacipi does not involve what Pierre Bourdieu (1977) 
calls 'doxic' - tacit, unreflexive, automative - tradition, but rather a 
highly relexive traditionalism [italic emphasis included in text], a 
traditionalism which gets much of its meaning from its symbolic 
opposition to assimilation among the Lakota people" (p. 21).


Something doesn't quite add up here.  It is clear that Biosli has 
attempted to petrify indigienous traditions, but I am not sure what he 
has or hasn't done with Bourdieu.  Perhaps someone out there can 
enlighten me.

Richard C. Eckert
Soc Grad Student
University of Michigan

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