WEBThis lecture discusses some of the conceptual problems involved in anthropological treatments of ideology, and argues that most of the difficulties arise from a theoretical preoccupation with essential human meanings-as embodied in the authentic social categories, actions and discourses of given cultures.
Language Ideology - Anthropology - Oxford Bibliographies
WEBJan 11, 2012 · Language ideologies are conceptualizations about languages, speakers, and discursive practices. Like other kinds of ideologies, language ideologies are pervaded with political and moral interests and are shaped in a cultural setting. To study language ideologies, then, is to explore the nexus of language, culture, and politics.
Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological …
WEBModern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective. Louis Dumont’s Essays on Individualism is an ambitious attempt to place the modern ideology of individualism in a broad anthropological perspective.
Ideology and Anthropology - Omnilogos
WEBMay 16, 2016 · This chapter looks at hermeneutic and Marxist theories of ideology in anthropology that link the concept to underlying social processes and material conditions that work to sustain relations of power and dominance in a given society.
3.3 The Elements of Culture - Introduction to Anthropology
WEBAn ideology identifies the entities, roles, behaviors, relationships, and processes in a particular realm as well as the rationale behind the whole system. Take democracy, for instance. The political ideology of democracy envisions a society of equal individual citizens who each cast a vote on proposals for government action.
Full article: Studying ideology and discourse as knowledge, …
WEBJun 20, 2021 · By bringing together Marxian and Marxist notions of ideology and discourse theoretical concepts, ideology is delineated as fundamentally discursive as well as material and not reducible to sets of immaterial distorted ideas or simply false consciousness.
Interviewing: Practice, Ideology, Genre, and Intertextuality
WEBThis review applies a critical linguistic anthropological perspective to classic and current scholarly literature on interviewing, understood as a cluster of communicative practices used to produce and circulate various types of authoritative and consequential knowledge about groups and individuals.
Language Ideologies | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology
WEBLanguage ideologies are used to evaluate socially perceivable behavior as meaningful with respect to issues of power, authority, and difference. They can be understood as a framework for linking certain uses of language (or other communicative forms) with certain social positionalities.
Identity - Anthropology - Oxford Bibliographies
WEBJun 29, 2015 · These identity-based tensions are often conceptualized as being products of globalization, postcolonialism, transnationalism, and the formation of diaspora. Anthropologists also call attention to how identities are invented, challenged, and sustained for political and other purposes.
History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology …
WEBIn History/Power/Ideology ethnography is made to speak to social theory, and social theory to ethnography; Marxian approaches are made to confront neo-classical economics; economics and politics are brought face-to-face with issues of culture and ideology.