Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 09:27:30 -0500 From: lampincj-AT-ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu (Christopher J. Lamping) Subject: Re: Bourdieu and de Certeau, Habitus and Culture Change >Maude Frances writes: > >>I've had a request from a colleague about any books or articles addressing >>Bourdieu in relation to de Certeau and vice versa. >> >>Any suggestions? > >De Certeau comments on the concept of habitus in an article on "Foucault >and Bourdieu", in Arts de faire, 1974 (it is no doubt translated). The >issue addressed by de Certeau concerns the problem of agency in Foucault >and Bourdieu, but I am not quite sure that de Certeau really understood >what Bourdieu (in Esquisse d'une theorie de la pratique) was doing. I don't >remember any substantial comment on de Certeau by Bourdieu. > >Carsten Sestoft >University of Copenhagen > yes, it's in _The Practice of Everyday Life_ (U of Cal. press 1984), and with the exceptions of E.V. Daniel, Joan Scott and (insofar as they were doing much the same thing in different ways) E.P. Thompson really 'got' Bourdieu much before the mid 80's-- it's really kind of funny in american anthropology-- from the publication of the _Outline..._, Bourdieu is in seemingly _everyone's_ bibliography, and no one seemed to have any idea what the bloody hell to do with him-- there's an academic _habitus_ for you! As for doing history-- I'd have to take issue with Paul Boyer-- true enough we don't have the society right in front of us, but you don't have a modern society right in front of you either. In either case, what is at play is not only empirico-historical research, but good imaginative scholarship, what Thompson called 'learning how to listen to one's sources'. In that regard, I don't think Braudel is the best historian for what one could do with Bourdieu-- have a look at about anything Natalie Zemon Davis and E.P. Thompson have written. Thompson, at least was a huge Bourdieu fan in his own very British way, and while I've only come across one instance of Bourdieu referring to Thompson, they tend to come up with pretty similar things within plus or minus a year or two of each other. cheers Christopher J. Lamping Department of History and Critical Theory of Religion Vanderbilt University email:lampincj-AT-ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu **************************************************************** 'The beast is real; but its reality exists within our own conformity and fear. We must acknowledge ourselves in the beast of history, for only so can we break the spell of fear and reduce it to our own size. And then we must meet it as it is. As Simon said, "What else is there to do?"' --E.P. Thompson, 1960 **************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 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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