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  • Knowledges: Culture, Counterculture, Subculture
  • Written by author Peter Worsley
  • Published by New Pr, 1998/01/01
  • Why do we think of the healing techniques of "primitive" peoples as interesting cultural practices, when what our own doctors do - to most of us no more intelligible than magic incantations - is unquestionably science? Why is it that when tribal people kn
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Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
1 Green Knowledge: The Living Environment of an Australian Tribe 17
Life before the White Man 17
Classifying People 29
Food Classification 51
Western Food Classification: From Cooking to Cuisine 57
Aboriginal Biological Classification 66
The Emergence of Western Science 73
Nature: Biological versus Popular Knowledge 78
Nature Transformed 83
Popular Classification Today 90
Linguistic Classification: Words and Numbers 96
English as a Foreign Language 107
Totemic Classification 110
Over-integrated Anthropology: Durkheim and Levi-Strauss 119
2 Finding the Way: Navigating the Pacific 125
The Canoes 130
Direction: Star Compasses 133
Distance: The Moving Islands 137
Other Sea-lore 138
Learning 142
The First Explorations 147
Over-integrated Psychology: Piaget and Hallpike 157
Scientific Knowledge and Popular Knowledge 164
3 Sickness as a Way of Life 169
Kongo Medicine: The Quest for Therapy 171
The Emergence of Biomedicine 184
Alternatives to Biomedicine 204
Mind, Body and Society 233
4 Remembering the Past, Interpreting the Present, Imagining the Future 241
African Genesis 241
The Limits of the Supernatural: Irreligion in an Age of Faith 247
Religion in the Modern State 253
The Intellectuals 255
Antonio Gramsci: Culture and Counterculture 264
Theories of Nationalism 268
Nationalism: Hegemony and Counterculture 273
Nationalism as Hegemony 286
Nationalism as Counterculture 295
Unwrapping Christmas 313
The World According to Disney 321
5 An Absence of Culture 340
From Ghetto to Subculture 340
Global Village, Global Culture? 349
Notes 359
References 369
Index 397


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