On Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:57:02 -0800 (PST) SERPELL said:
>David kirshner wrote:
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>From: IN%"xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu" 22-FEB-1998 18:05:26.37
>To: IN%"xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu"
>CC:
>Subj: Production vs Reproduction
>
>I read hints in the literature of critiques of sociohistorical theory
>as accounting for the reproduction of culture more successfully than
>for the production of culture. Could someone direct me toward such
>critiques, and also towards the responses that have been offered to them?
>Thanks.
>
>David Kirshner
>Louisiana State University
>cikirs who-is-at lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu
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>Perhaps relevant, and certainly worth reading is the integrative review by
>Bradley Levinson and Dorothy Holland of the debate over the limitations of
> reproduction theory in Marxist and neo-Marxist accounts of education, and of
>cultural difference theory in American anthropology. Their chapter is
>entitled "The cultural production of the educated person", and serves as the
>introduction to the book by the same title published in 1996 by SUNY Press,
>Albany, edited by Levinson, Foley & Holland, which i flagged on XMCA last year.
>I wonder if anyone else has read this and has thoughts about the perspective
>advanced in the chapter and/or the book as a whole ?
>
>Incidentally the book, which is richly stocked with multinational,
>historically situated critical ethnographies of education, also contains
>a pungent chapter by Douglas Foley that challenges the authenticity of Susan
>Philips oft-cited work, entitled "The silent Indian as a cultural production".
>
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