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Asian Journal of Social Science 37 (2009) 699–705 brill.nl/ajss © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/156853109X460255 Book Reviews Lardinois, Roland and Meenakshi Th apan (eds.) (2006) Reading Pierre Bourdieu in a Dual Context: Essays from India and France . London: Routledge. 313 pages. ISBN 0-415-40114-3. Th is volume presents nine essays that apply the work of the late French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to studies of French and Indian societies. Th rough examining diff erent social contexts, in diff erent localities and at diff erent times, the contributions show how Bourdieu’s key concepts and theoretical approaches, including habitus, fi eld, the diff erent forms of capital and symbolic violence, can be used in sociological, anthropological, historical and literary analyses. Prominent themes presented in the volume are power relations, social class, status, privilege and domination. Several authors elaborate upon Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, emphasising that this last- ing cultural disposition, which shapes the categories by which people perceive and act upon the world, is not as unchanging as other commentators on Bourdieu’s work suggested. Applying habitus to studies of the family, gender, class and discursive practices in India and France, the authors stress that these social contexts should also
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Published: Jan 1, 2009
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