- Following Thomas Kuhn's celebrated concept of paradigms and paradigmatic shifts in the natural sciences, a paradigm for the human sciences might be defined as follows: a set of socially constructed presuppositions shared by most if not all members of a given community concerning appropriate theories, contexts and texts of study and appropriate models and methods of research
- Not all scholars, however, recognised that the human genetic structure accords little statistical significance to physical appearance or that the term ‘race’ only has meaning as a social construction—one's racial identity being determined by one's community or culture
- 1997 . For an extended, and more detailed, treatment of the themes outlined in this section, see J. McNamara and L. Switzer, ‘Critical Theory, Cultural Studies and The Press: Paradigms, Procedures, Possibilities’ (Paper presented to the International Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois, Aug.
- Derrida , J. 1976 . Of Grammatology A standard work is, translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore, Derrida gave an unusually clear presentation of his ideas in the interviews published as Positions, translated and annotated by Alan Bass (Chicago, 1980). A useful collection is P. Kamuf, ed., The Derrida Reader (New York, 1991)
- Foucault , M. 1972 . The Archaeology of Knowledge translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith (New York, is his definitive early statement about the formation of truth and knowledge. The work that first drew widespread international attention to his conception of the relations between knowledge, truth and power was Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison, translated by Alan Sheridan (New York, 1979). His later thought is best represented by his History of Sexuality, vol. 1, translated by Robert Hurley (New York, 1978), with subsequent volumes published as Vintage Books. Extremely useful are the collections of his numerous papers and interviews: Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, edited by Donald F. Bouchard, and translated by Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon (Ithaca, 1977);Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972—77, edited and translated by Colin Gordon (New York, 1980);Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977—84, translated by Alan Sheridan et al. (New York, 1988)
- Lévi-Strauss , C. 1963 . Structural Anthropology translated by Claire Jacobson and Brook Grundfest Schoepf (New York, is standard, though his later multi-volume Mythologiques (Paris, 1964 and following) is the major work of ‘decoding’ a vast body of myth. A very different approach to decoding is F. Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca, NY, 1981), and his more recent and extremely influential Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham, NC, 1991). Clifford Geertz's ethnographic experiments in decoding have drawn wide attention through his The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (New York, 1973) and Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (New York, 1983)
- Taylor , M. , ed. 1986 . Deconstruction in Context Chicago Key works are presented in, ed.
- The literature in contemporary feminist studies is too vast to summarise, and the following citations are only a suggestive introduction to some of the most important feminist work in cultural studies
- Sellers , S. 1994 . The Hélène Cixous Reader preface by H. Cixous and foreword by J. Derrida (New York
- Moi , T. 1986 . The Kristeva Reader New York (See also Kristeva's Strangers to Ourselves, translated by Leon Roudiez (New York, 1991)
- Whitford , M. 1991 . The Irigaray Reader New York (See also Irigaray's An Ethics of Sexual Difference, translated by Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca, NY, 1993)
- Spivak , G. C. 1987 . In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics New York (G.C. Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine (New York, 1993). A convenient collection is D. Landry and G. MacLean, eds, The Spivak Reader (New York, 1996)
- Moi , T. 1985 . Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory London and New York (T. Moi, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual (Oxford, 1994)
- Butler , J. 1987 . Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France New York (J. Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity(New York, 1990);J. Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex’ (New York, 1993). See also her collection edited with Joan W. Scott, Feminists Theorize the Political (New York, 1992)
- Sedgwick , E. K. 1990 . Epistemology of the Closet Berkeley and Los Angeles (E.K. Sedgwick, Tendencies (Durham, NC, 1993)
- Crais , C. 1994 . South African Historical Journal , 31 Nov. : 274 – 9 . The following remarks are prompted in part by some disturbing claims made in recent attempts to interpret the postmodern moment in Southern African Studies. For example, ‘South Africa and the Pitfalls of Postmodernism’
- Hayakawa , S. I. 1978 . Language in Thought and Action See, 4th ed. (New York, ch. 3
- 1960s . In the late when I was working on my PhD dissertation at the University of Natal, for example, I interviewed white missionaries and black members of ABM churches (which included Albert Luthuli's pastor, Gideon Sivetye), and no mention was ever made of strained relations between Luthuli and the ABM
- 1992 . There are apparently no references relating to the Eastern Cape after, and several items published before this date are missing from the bibliography. They include source material on figures highlighted in the book (such as Hunt Davis's article on Elijah Makiwane, published in African Affairs in 1979), on the making of colonial orthodoxy on the eastern frontier (such as Ben Maclennan's A Proper Degree of Terror, published in 1986), on the invention of African tradition (such as Alan Webster's MA thesis on the 1835 war and the ‘Fingo’ story, which was completed in 1991)
- 1989 . The comprehensive account of the emergence and decline of the bourgeois public sphere is contained in J. Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, translated by Thomas Burger with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence (Cambridge, originally published in 1962). For a useful interpretation of Habermas's ideas, see S. Seidman, ed., Jurgen Habermas on Society and Politics: A Reader (Boston, 1989)
- de Saussure , F. 1907 . Course in General Linguistics De Saussure's major work, composed and published after his death by colleagues, was based mainly on student notes of lectures he gave about general linguistics between and 1911. See, translated by R. Harris (London, 1983). A good introduction to this seminal thinker is J. Culler, Ferdinand de Saussure (New York, 1976)
- Eagleton , T. 1996 . Literary Theory: An Introduction, , 2nd ed. (Minneapolis, On ideology as a concept in critical cultural studies, see J. Larraine, The Concept of Ideology (London, 1979) and J. Larraine, Marxism and Ideology (London, 1983);J.B. Thompson, Studies in the Theory of Ideology (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1984);T. Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction (New York, 1991);and T. Eagleton, ed., Ideology [Longman Critical Readers] (London and New York, 1994)
- Wardhaugh , R. 1985 . How Conversation Works Oxford A good introduction to the linguistic issues is (See also J.L. Mey, Pragmatics: An Introduction (Oxford, 1993)
- Austin , J. L. 1962 . How to Do Things with Words Oxford The classic studies are (J. Searle. Speech Acts (Cambridge, 1969);and J. Searle, Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts (Cambridge, 1979). Perhaps the most direct influence on pragmatics, however, has come from the philosopher H. Paul Grice. For example, see his ‘Logic and Conversation’, in P. Cole and J.L. Morgan, eds, Syntax and Semantics 3: Speech Acts (New York, 1975), 41–58
- Landau describes social practices in the everyday life of the Ngwato church—prayer, healing, welfare, reintegration into the community—that should be familiar to almost anyone raised in a nonconformist, evangelical church tradition
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