Pierre Bourdieu: Issues of Embodiment and Authenticity

This paper, using some recent insights from performance studies and other writings on embodiment, takes a second look at Bourdieu's fieldwork in Algerian Kabylia. It is argued that as a consequence of Bourdieu's taking Kabyle society as a strategic research site, he depicted its ritual tra...

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Published in:Etnofoor 2004-01, Vol.17 (1/2), p.215-226
Main Author: Roodenburg, Herman
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Literary criticism
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Memory
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