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Article: Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture. (Book Notes). (book review)
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Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman, eds. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. xii + 253 pp.
As the title indicates, this collection is an effort to shift the discussion of Bourdieu's work away from the more abstract theoretical questions that dominated his early reception in this country and towards a more practical application of his methods of cultural analysis. Accordingly, the volume is divided into two sections: first, a theoretically oriented section consisting of five essays concerned mainly with defending Bourdieu against the criticism that his work has received in America; and second, a section of six essays employing ...