Now available in paperback, this book offers a major statement of Bourdieu's theoretical approach, illustrating it with examples from anthropology. It will consolidate his reputation as one of the most original and exciting theorists in the social sciences today.Drawing on his own field work as well as a wide range of ethnographic and anthropological texts, Bourdieu unfolds a theoretical perspective which does justice to the practical logic of everyday action as well as the objective structures within which such action takes place. A thorough understanding of practice requires the anthropologist to move beyond objectivism and subjectivism and to grasp, by means of the concept of `habitus', the interplay of structures and practices in the ongoing conduct of everyday life.
- ISBN10 0745610153
- ISBN13 9780745610153
- Publish Date 2 July 1992 (first published 24 May 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Polity Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 344
- Language English