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Article: Locating Bourdieu.(Book review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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REED-DANAHAY, DEBORAH. Locating Bourdieu. xii, 208 pp., bibliogr. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2005. [pounds sterling]35.95 (cloth), [pounds sterling]14.95 (paper)
Deborah Reed-Danahay appreciates the scholarship of Pierre Bourdieu, and Locating Bourdieu (LB) is a sympathetic account of his work. Having carried out ethnographic fieldwork in a village in the Auvergne, the author has an excellent grasp of the intricacies of the French system of education and therefore has a better appreciation than most of the social context of Bourdieu's life and work. However, as Reed-Danahay points out, LB is not biography, neither is it hagiography; it is measured and ...