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Title: Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts by James C. Scott ISBN: 0-300-05669-9 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Comment: This book is a clear indication of the problems with modern historians: the tendency toward presumption and the discovery of common sense as if it were a new planet. Scott claims to understand the REAL story beneath ordinary daily discourses, going so far as to state that young inner city black men play a game that involves trading insults in order to "practice" reacting to racism in non-violent ways. How ridiculous!
Scott also attempts to prove his thesis by stating that alcohol sometimes plays a role in hidden transcripts becoming public. I suppose he hasn't had much experience with alcohol or those who have partaken of alcohol, else he would realize this is painfully obvious and not a groundbreaking revelation.
I give the book 2 stars because of its readability and the obvious effort put into the research. However, I cannot recommend it, for it is a perfect example of historians who spend too much time in the office, and not enough time in the real world.
Rating: 5
Summary: James C. Scott's Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Comment: Spanning the entire globe and covering over 1000 years of human history, James C. Scott's Domination and the Arts of Resistance is an intellectual odyssey into the relatively new field of subaltern studies. It is also an intellectual oasis for historians and general readers of history who have become disillusioned with the traditional historiography of power relations and resistance among dominate groups and subordinate groups. Indeed, Scott's use of folklore, speeches, ballads, literary theory,linguistics, and public ceremonies, e.g., parades and political rallies, greatly adds to the works of other innovative historians of culture, domination, and resistance, e.g., Scott gives the works of Michel Focault, Hayden White, Dominick LaCapra, and Natalie Zemon Davis, to name a few, new perspectives for cultural analysis. Perhaps of greater importance is Scott's examination of what he describes as "public" and "private" transcripts,i.e., dialogue among and between the dominate and subordinate groups. Furthermore, Scott puts great emphasis on the "infrastructure" of power relationships among the respective inner "communities" of theweak and the strong. In short, what goes on behind the scenes, away from the public eye, reveals the true nature of what Scott labels as "masks of power", which are, in effect, merely public performances designed to placate both dominate and subordinate groups. This absorbing work will certainly be influential for future generations of historians, anthroplogists, political scientists, and sociologists.
Rating: 5
Summary: an epiphany on every page
Comment: "When the great lord passes the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts." This book marks one of those moments for me when rethink just about everything...from elusidating certain truisms to hammering out theories and ideas that ring remarkably true, Scott's book is challenging, powerful, and engaging. Reading this book is like sitting in his office conversing...I find myself exclaiming and agreeing aloud. I really enjoy his comments on gender; a concept I have felt comfortable with for years, and suddenly I feel as though he has just clarified it for me. I have been doing double-takes as random comments about women in my primary sources (about fickleness of emotion) which I thought I could chalk up to typical misogyny begin to catagorize themselves in my mind as the effects of attempting to live within hidden and public transcripts. Very readable, interesting, engaging...in a word, fabulous.
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Title: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance by James C. Scott ISBN: 0300036418 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1987 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Yale Agrarian Studies (Paperback)) by James C. Scott ISBN: 0300078153 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.61 |
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Title: Power (Readings in Social and Political Theory, No. 4) by Steven Lukes ISBN: 0814750311 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1986 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan ISBN: 0679752552 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule by Ann Laura Stoler ISBN: 0520231112 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 02 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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