Hervé Varenne
Biographic Data
| ID | 86111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hervé Varenne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hervé |
| FAMILY NAME | Varenne |
| SIGNATURE | VARENNE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 232 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Culture of Poverty
Assembling and Dissembling
In this piece, the authors examine educational policy by focusing on the ways in which actors “play” or selectively follow, negotiate, and appropriate cultural instructions and rules. They outline a framework that situates assemblage, a notion utilized in actor-network theory, within the critical cultural study of policy. Treating policy assemblage as a dynamic cultural form, they argue, provides a way of revealing the complexities of sociomateri…
Conclusion
This afterword places the three articles in the context of recent developments in the anthropology of knowledge as it relates to sociability. The articles illustrate again that sociability is more a matter of finding out what is happening, and then doing something about it, than a matter of applying earlier knowledge. The papers are part of a movement in anthropology with roots in the work of people like Garfinkel, Rancière, de Certeau, Lave, etc…
Culture, Education, Anthropology
This article argues that the anthropology of education must focus on what people do to educate themselves outside the constraints constituting the problematics of schooling. Anthropologists must do this precisely to fulfill their public role as legitimate participants in the conversations about understanding and transforming schooling. When anthropologists work at losing control in their research practice, they discover the breadth of the educati…
On NCATE Standards and Culture at Work
Many are unaware of the power of the NCATE standards for the accreditation of schools of education. In this article, I first trace the development of the political authority of these standards, and their imposition on hundreds of schools of education. I then focus on the discourse of these standards, particularly the emphasis on "knowledge, skills and dispositions" as personal properties to control. I conclude with a call to highlight the struggl…
Dr. Mom? Conversational Play and the Submergence of Professional Status in Childbirth
The Cultural Work of Learning Disabilities
Culturally and educationally, the United States specializes in the production of kinds of persons described first by ethnic, racial, and linguistic lines and second by supposed mental abilities. Overlaps between the two systems of classification are frequent, systematically haphazard, and often deleterious. An examination of classrooms around the country shows shifting currents of concern and tension that invite the attribution of labels for ment…
On Internationalizing Counseling Psychology
Where thought is the currency
Neither Here Nor There
A Room Full of Mirrors
Exotics at Home
Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity. MICHAELA DI LEONARDO. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi. 445 pp., illustrations, notes, index
Diagnosing America
Environmental Values In American Culture. Willet KEMPTON, James S. Boster, and Jennifer A. HARTLEY
Culture as Disability
Common sense allows that persons unable to handle a difficult problem can be labeled "disabled." Social analysis shows that being labeled often invites a public response that multiplies the difficulties facing the seemingly unable. Cultural analysis shows that disability refers most precisely to inadequate performances only on tasks that are arbitrarily circumscribed from daily life. Disabilities are less the property of persons than they are mom…
The Art of Social Relations
Ambiguous Harmony
Money, Morals, and Manners
Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michele Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class--the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book is a subtle, textured description of how these men define the values and attitudes they consider essential in separating themselves--and their class--fr…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
De‐Constructed Ethnographies
Dan Rose. Patterns of American Culture: Ethnography and Estrangement. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. 123 pp. $19.95 (cloth). John D. Dorst. The Written Suburb: An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. xii. 220 pp. $19.95 (paper
The Re-Making of an American Hero
Middle American Individualism
Culture Builders
Talk and Real Talk
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Culture as Disability
Common sense allows that persons unable to handle a difficult problem can be labeled "disabled." Social analysis shows that being labeled often invites a public response that multiplies the difficulties facing the seemingly unable. Cultural analysis shows that disability refers most precisely to inadequate performances only on tasks that are arbitrarily circumscribed from daily life. Disabilities are less the property of persons than they are mom…
The Cultural Work of Learning Disabilities
Culturally and educationally, the United States specializes in the production of kinds of persons described first by ethnic, racial, and linguistic lines and second by supposed mental abilities. Overlaps between the two systems of classification are frequent, systematically haphazard, and often deleterious. An examination of classrooms around the country shows shifting currents of concern and tension that invite the attribution of labels for ment…
Assembling and Dissembling
In this piece, the authors examine educational policy by focusing on the ways in which actors “play” or selectively follow, negotiate, and appropriate cultural instructions and rules. They outline a framework that situates assemblage, a notion utilized in actor-network theory, within the critical cultural study of policy. Treating policy assemblage as a dynamic cultural form, they argue, provides a way of revealing the complexities of sociomateri…
Collective Representation in American Anthropological Conversations
The paper is an investigation into the conversational processes which lead to a peculiarly American appropriation of the holistic intuition into the nature of culture. The individualism of American culture is well known. The fact that one can find in the United States many statements that go beyond individualism (e.g., in the Pragmatist tradition) is either ignored or used as an argument for the impossibility of speaking of an "American" culture.…
Culture as rhetoric
Six "texts" produced by the staff of an American high school are analyzed and shown to possess a common rhetorical structure that is independently constituted and that may determine what is being said. It is argued that this rhetoric of everyday talk signifies a set of social positions that are projected onto social reality without always representing it. It is suggested that in this rhetoric may lie the concrete impulse in the phenomenological w…
Culture, Education, Anthropology
This article argues that the anthropology of education must focus on what people do to educate themselves outside the constraints constituting the problematics of schooling. Anthropologists must do this precisely to fulfill their public role as legitimate participants in the conversations about understanding and transforming schooling. When anthropologists work at losing control in their research practice, they discover the breadth of the educati…
Talk and Real Talk
On Internationalizing Counseling Psychology
Family language and education
From Grading and Freedom of Choice to Ranking and Segregation in an American High School
Conclusion
This afterword places the three articles in the context of recent developments in the anthropology of knowledge as it relates to sociability. The articles illustrate again that sociability is more a matter of finding out what is happening, and then doing something about it, than a matter of applying earlier knowledge. The papers are part of a movement in anthropology with roots in the work of people like Garfinkel, Rancière, de Certeau, Lave, etc…
On NCATE Standards and Culture at Work
Many are unaware of the power of the NCATE standards for the accreditation of schools of education. In this article, I first trace the development of the political authority of these standards, and their imposition on hundreds of schools of education. I then focus on the discourse of these standards, particularly the emphasis on "knowledge, skills and dispositions" as personal properties to control. I conclude with a call to highlight the struggl…
Dr. Mom? Conversational Play and the Submergence of Professional Status in Childbirth
Neither Here Nor There
Money, Morals, and Manners
Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michele Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class--the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book is a subtle, textured description of how these men define the values and attitudes they consider essential in separating themselves--and their class--fr…
The Interpretation of pronominal paradigms
Deadly Words
Is Dedham American? The Diagnosis of Things American
From Grading and Freedom of Choice to Ranking and Segregation in an American High School
General and Theoretical
Is Dedham American? The Diagnosis of Things American
Culture as rhetoric
Six "texts" produced by the staff of an American high school are analyzed and shown to possess a common rhetorical structure that is independently constituted and that may determine what is being said. It is argued that this rhetoric of everyday talk signifies a set of social positions that are projected onto social reality without always representing it. It is suggested that in this rhetoric may lie the concrete impulse in the phenomenological w…
Rockdale
A new direction in community studies
Marie-Claude Pingaud. Paysans de Bourgogne, les gens de Minot. Paris: Flammarion, 1978. 300 pp. FF. 88, paper. Yvonne Verdier. Façons de dire, façons de faire: la laveuse, la couturière, la cuisinière. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1979. 345 pp. and appendices. FF 95, paper. Françoise Zonabend. La mémoire longue: temps et histoire au village. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1980. 314 pp. FF 68, paper
Family language and education
Deadly Words
Language and learning
L'Art d'Accommoder les Bebes. 100 ans de Recettes Francaises de Puericulture
American School Language
Collective Representation in American Anthropological Conversations
The paper is an investigation into the conversational processes which lead to a peculiarly American appropriation of the holistic intuition into the nature of culture. The individualism of American culture is well known. The fact that one can find in the United States many statements that go beyond individualism (e.g., in the Pragmatist tradition) is either ignored or used as an argument for the impossibility of speaking of an "American" culture.…
The Interpretation of pronominal paradigms
On Individual and Culture in American Anthropology
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Talk and Real Talk
Culture Builders
The Re-Making of an American Hero
Middle American Individualism
De‐Constructed Ethnographies
Dan Rose. Patterns of American Culture: Ethnography and Estrangement. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. 123 pp. $19.95 (cloth). John D. Dorst. The Written Suburb: An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. xii. 220 pp. $19.95 (paper
Ambiguous Harmony
Money, Morals, and Manners
Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michele Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class--the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book is a subtle, textured description of how these men define the values and attitudes they consider essential in separating themselves--and their class--fr…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Environmental Values In American Culture. Willet KEMPTON, James S. Boster, and Jennifer A. HARTLEY
Culture as Disability
Common sense allows that persons unable to handle a difficult problem can be labeled "disabled." Social analysis shows that being labeled often invites a public response that multiplies the difficulties facing the seemingly unable. Cultural analysis shows that disability refers most precisely to inadequate performances only on tasks that are arbitrarily circumscribed from daily life. Disabilities are less the property of persons than they are mom…
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