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 ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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