Robert C Ulin
Biographic Data
| ID | 83690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert C Ulin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ulin |
| SIGNATURE | ULIN R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Allegheny College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Revisiting Cultural Relativism
Revisiting Cultural Relativism:Old Prospects for a New Cultural Critique Robert C. Ulin Cultural relativism is among the most misunderstood yet socially charged concepts associated with anthropology today. While most American cultural anthropologists have utilized cultural relativism as a pedagogical and sometimes political medium to challenge ethnocentric western views and cultural practices and to promote an appreciation of cultural diversity, …
Beasts of the Field
Remembering Paul Ricoeur
The deaths of Michel Foucault in 1984, Pierre Bourdieu in 2002, Jacques Derrida in 2004, and now Paul Ricoeur on May 20, 2005 virtually mark the passing of a generation of French intellectuals who have been enormously influential in numerous academic disciplines world-wide including anthropology. 1 In fact, what is most noteworthy of the above four, and a testimony to their originality and intellects, is the difficulty of typifying their publicat…
Globalization and Alternative Localities
The mobility of capital, manufacture and labour and the increasing influence of technology and mass communications worldwide foregrounds globalization as arguably the dominant theme across the critical social sciences and humanities. However, while there is little disagreement concerning the importance of globalization to social change, scholars often disagree as to how we should make sense of influential global processes. Eric Wolf (1982,1999) s…
Work as cultural production
I criticize insufficiencies in the Marxist conceptualization of labour as instrumental action as a departure-point to evaluate the relation between work and self-identity among southwest French wine-growers who are members of co-operatives. The symbolic distinction between two wine-growing regions, and the tension between wine-growing as an artisanal practice and wine-growing as science, are used historically and ethnographically to argue for a c…
Vintages and Traditions
Vintages and Traditions
Vintages and Tradition
Vintages and Tradtion. An Ethnohistory of Southwest French Ware Cooperatives. ROBERT C. ULi. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. This is a study of social and conditions that led to marginal status of southwest French wine cooperatives with respect to prestigious estate-bottled wines of Bordeaux. Described by author alternately as ethnohistory and historical ethnography, Ulin's work is based on eleven years of archival and field r…
Invention and Representation as Cultural Capital
The paramount reputation of Bordeaux wines is believed to follow from superior techniques of vinification and a climate and soil reputedly ideal for winegrowing. Through a qualification of the invention of tradition theme, this essay argues that Bordeaux's paramount reputation follows from a social history and a hegemonic, invented winegrowing tradition that enabled winegrowing elites to replicate and profit from the cultural capital associated w…
The anthropologist and the historian as storytellers
Beyond explanation and understanding
The Current Tide in American Europeanist Anthropology
Critical Anthropology Twenty Years Later
This essay reviews the current claims of political-economy and postmodernism to define the terrain of critical anthropology While it is argued that the marxist concept of labor is inadequate as a theory of social action, it is also argued that postmodernism fails to take into consideration the concrete social conditions of capitalist society that profoundly condition the representational process It is suggested that a metatheory grounded in histo…
Writing and Power
Robert C. Ulin, Writing and Power: The Recovery of Winegrowing Histories in the Southwest of France, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2, Anthropological Research in France: Problems and Prospects for the Study of Complex Society (Apr., 1987), pp. 77-82
Peasant Politics and Secret Societies
Many contemporary sources, including anthropological define politics as the vyingforpower that occurs in the public domain, the goverance of the body politic, or strategiesfor advancing particular interests as general While not inaccurate in terms of reflecting politics in the modern state, the instrumental notion often excludes a sense ofpolitics that involves a strugglefor mutual recognition or consensus through the medium of discourse. Discour…
Understanding Cultures
Understanding Cultures
Social Change through a Southwest French Wine Cooperative
The French government since the early twentieth century has provided assistance to small independent proprietors of wine to form cooperatives. By focusing on the Sigoulès cooperative, located in the southwest of France, this essay shows how wine cooperatives of the Aquitaine institutionalized the capitalist division of labor and its mode of social control. Not only is the significance of capitalist markets and social divisions between wine grower…
Reading The Nuer [and Comments and Reply]
The argument of Evans-Pritchard's classic The Nuer has been subject to conflicting interpretations. We examine these interpretations and then present a reading of the work that treats it as a whole. A key conclusion is that Evans-Pritchard distinguishes among three aspects of the "systems" he describes: (1) logical possibilities immanent in all forms of action, (2) cultural or local idioms in terms of which action is formulated and expressed, and…
Anthropology and the colonial encounter
Invention and Representation as Cultural Capital
The paramount reputation of Bordeaux wines is believed to follow from superior techniques of vinification and a climate and soil reputedly ideal for winegrowing. Through a qualification of the invention of tradition theme, this essay argues that Bordeaux's paramount reputation follows from a social history and a hegemonic, invented winegrowing tradition that enabled winegrowing elites to replicate and profit from the cultural capital associated w…
Reading The Nuer [and Comments and Reply]
The argument of Evans-Pritchard's classic The Nuer has been subject to conflicting interpretations. We examine these interpretations and then present a reading of the work that treats it as a whole. A key conclusion is that Evans-Pritchard distinguishes among three aspects of the "systems" he describes: (1) logical possibilities immanent in all forms of action, (2) cultural or local idioms in terms of which action is formulated and expressed, and…
Understanding Cultures
Work as cultural production
I criticize insufficiencies in the Marxist conceptualization of labour as instrumental action as a departure-point to evaluate the relation between work and self-identity among southwest French wine-growers who are members of co-operatives. The symbolic distinction between two wine-growing regions, and the tension between wine-growing as an artisanal practice and wine-growing as science, are used historically and ethnographically to argue for a c…
Critical Anthropology Twenty Years Later
This essay reviews the current claims of political-economy and postmodernism to define the terrain of critical anthropology While it is argued that the marxist concept of labor is inadequate as a theory of social action, it is also argued that postmodernism fails to take into consideration the concrete social conditions of capitalist society that profoundly condition the representational process It is suggested that a metatheory grounded in histo…
Globalization and Alternative Localities
The mobility of capital, manufacture and labour and the increasing influence of technology and mass communications worldwide foregrounds globalization as arguably the dominant theme across the critical social sciences and humanities. However, while there is little disagreement concerning the importance of globalization to social change, scholars often disagree as to how we should make sense of influential global processes. Eric Wolf (1982,1999) s…
Revisiting Cultural Relativism
Revisiting Cultural Relativism:Old Prospects for a New Cultural Critique Robert C. Ulin Cultural relativism is among the most misunderstood yet socially charged concepts associated with anthropology today. While most American cultural anthropologists have utilized cultural relativism as a pedagogical and sometimes political medium to challenge ethnocentric western views and cultural practices and to promote an appreciation of cultural diversity, …
Vintages and Traditions
Vintages and Tradition
Vintages and Tradtion. An Ethnohistory of Southwest French Ware Cooperatives. ROBERT C. ULi. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. This is a study of social and conditions that led to marginal status of southwest French wine cooperatives with respect to prestigious estate-bottled wines of Bordeaux. Described by author alternately as ethnohistory and historical ethnography, Ulin's work is based on eleven years of archival and field r…
The Current Tide in American Europeanist Anthropology
Writing and Power
Robert C. Ulin, Writing and Power: The Recovery of Winegrowing Histories in the Southwest of France, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2, Anthropological Research in France: Problems and Prospects for the Study of Complex Society (Apr., 1987), pp. 77-82
Understanding Cultures
Anthropology and the colonial encounter
Reading The Nuer [and Comments and Reply]
The argument of Evans-Pritchard's classic The Nuer has been subject to conflicting interpretations. We examine these interpretations and then present a reading of the work that treats it as a whole. A key conclusion is that Evans-Pritchard distinguishes among three aspects of the "systems" he describes: (1) logical possibilities immanent in all forms of action, (2) cultural or local idioms in terms of which action is formulated and expressed, and…
Understanding Cultures
Understanding Cultures
Social Change through a Southwest French Wine Cooperative
The French government since the early twentieth century has provided assistance to small independent proprietors of wine to form cooperatives. By focusing on the Sigoulès cooperative, located in the southwest of France, this essay shows how wine cooperatives of the Aquitaine institutionalized the capitalist division of labor and its mode of social control. Not only is the significance of capitalist markets and social divisions between wine grower…
Peasant Politics and Secret Societies
Many contemporary sources, including anthropological define politics as the vyingforpower that occurs in the public domain, the goverance of the body politic, or strategiesfor advancing particular interests as general While not inaccurate in terms of reflecting politics in the modern state, the instrumental notion often excludes a sense ofpolitics that involves a strugglefor mutual recognition or consensus through the medium of discourse. Discour…
Writing and Power
Robert C. Ulin, Writing and Power: The Recovery of Winegrowing Histories in the Southwest of France, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2, Anthropological Research in France: Problems and Prospects for the Study of Complex Society (Apr., 1987), pp. 77-82
The Current Tide in American Europeanist Anthropology
Critical Anthropology Twenty Years Later
This essay reviews the current claims of political-economy and postmodernism to define the terrain of critical anthropology While it is argued that the marxist concept of labor is inadequate as a theory of social action, it is also argued that postmodernism fails to take into consideration the concrete social conditions of capitalist society that profoundly condition the representational process It is suggested that a metatheory grounded in histo…
Beyond explanation and understanding
The anthropologist and the historian as storytellers
Invention and Representation as Cultural Capital
The paramount reputation of Bordeaux wines is believed to follow from superior techniques of vinification and a climate and soil reputedly ideal for winegrowing. Through a qualification of the invention of tradition theme, this essay argues that Bordeaux's paramount reputation follows from a social history and a hegemonic, invented winegrowing tradition that enabled winegrowing elites to replicate and profit from the cultural capital associated w…
Vintages and Tradition
Vintages and Tradtion. An Ethnohistory of Southwest French Ware Cooperatives. ROBERT C. ULi. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. This is a study of social and conditions that led to marginal status of southwest French wine cooperatives with respect to prestigious estate-bottled wines of Bordeaux. Described by author alternately as ethnohistory and historical ethnography, Ulin's work is based on eleven years of archival and field r…
Vintages and Traditions
Vintages and Traditions
Work as cultural production
I criticize insufficiencies in the Marxist conceptualization of labour as instrumental action as a departure-point to evaluate the relation between work and self-identity among southwest French wine-growers who are members of co-operatives. The symbolic distinction between two wine-growing regions, and the tension between wine-growing as an artisanal practice and wine-growing as science, are used historically and ethnographically to argue for a c…
Globalization and Alternative Localities
The mobility of capital, manufacture and labour and the increasing influence of technology and mass communications worldwide foregrounds globalization as arguably the dominant theme across the critical social sciences and humanities. However, while there is little disagreement concerning the importance of globalization to social change, scholars often disagree as to how we should make sense of influential global processes. Eric Wolf (1982,1999) s…
Beasts of the Field
Remembering Paul Ricoeur
The deaths of Michel Foucault in 1984, Pierre Bourdieu in 2002, Jacques Derrida in 2004, and now Paul Ricoeur on May 20, 2005 virtually mark the passing of a generation of French intellectuals who have been enormously influential in numerous academic disciplines world-wide including anthropology. 1 In fact, what is most noteworthy of the above four, and a testimony to their originality and intellects, is the difficulty of typifying their publicat…
Revisiting Cultural Relativism
Revisiting Cultural Relativism:Old Prospects for a New Cultural Critique Robert C. Ulin Cultural relativism is among the most misunderstood yet socially charged concepts associated with anthropology today. While most American cultural anthropologists have utilized cultural relativism as a pedagogical and sometimes political medium to challenge ethnocentric western views and cultural practices and to promote an appreciation of cultural diversity, …
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