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Product Identifiers

PublisherTaylor & Francis Group

ISBN-10041523025X

ISBN-139780415230254

eBay Product ID (ePID)13038275581

Product Key Features

Number of Pages392 Pages

Publication NameEveryday Life Reader

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

SubjectCivilization, Ethnic Studies / General, Media Studies, General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Social Science, History

AuthorBen Highmore

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight27.5 Oz

Item Length9.7 in

Item Width7.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2001-044194

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentPart I - Situating the Everyday 1. Parapraxes Sigmund Freud 2. Preface to The Mediterranean Fernand Braudel 3. Front and Back Regions of Everyday Life Erving Goffmann 4.'The Problem that has No Name'Betty Friedan 5. General Introduction from The Practice of Everyday Life Michel de Certeau 6. A Feminist Methodology Dorothy Smith 7.Introduction fromEveryday Life: Yale French Studies Part II - Everyday Life and 'National Culture' Alice Kaplan and Kristin Ross 8. Habit and Custom Leon Trotsky 9. From The Road to Wigan Pier Diary George Orwell 10. Whose Imagined Community? Partha Chatterjee 11. Nixon in Moscow Karal Ann Marling 12. Introduction to Fast Cars, Clean Bodies Kristin Ross 13. The Promise of 'Modern Life' Harry Hatoonian 14. New Urban Culture and the Anxiety of Everyday Life in Late-Twentieth-Century China Part III - Ethnography Near and Far Xiaobing Tang 15. Proper Conditions for Ethnographic Work Bronislaw Malinowski 16. Mass-Observation: 'Two Letters and 'They Speak for Themselves' Mass Observation 17. The Kabyle House or the World Reversed Pierre Bourdieu 18. Approaches to What? George Perec 19. Documentation VI: Pre-writing alphabet, exerque and diary Mary Kelly 20. France/Tour/Detour/Two/Children Jean-Luc Godard and ^Ann Marie Mi'eville 21. Reassemblage Part IV - Reclamation Work Trinh T Minh-Ha 22. Work and Leisure in Everyday Life Henri Lefebrve 23. Perspectives for Conscious Alternations in Everyday Life Guy Debord 24. History from Below E P Thompson 25.Landscape for a Good Woman Caroline Steedman 26. Symbolic Creativity Part V - Everyday Things Paul Willis 27. Boredom Siegfried Kracauer 28. Plastic Roland Barthes 29. Structures of Interior Design Jean Baudrillard 30. Doing Cooking Luce Giard 31.Installing the Television Set Lynn Spiegel 32.Making Love in Supermarkets Daniel Miller 33 Rough Magic: Bags Steven Connor

SynopsisUsing primary materials, Highmor brings together a wide range of thinkers to provide a comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life. Highmore's introduction surveys the development of thought about everyday life., The Everyday Life Reader brings together thinkers ranging from Freud to Baudrillard with primary sources. It thus provides a complete and comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore's introduction surveys the development of thought about everyday life, setting theories in their social and historical context, and each themed section opens with an essay introducing the debates. Sections include: *Situating the Everyday *Everyday Life and 'National Culture' *Ethnography Near and Far *Reclamation Work *Everyday Things

LC Classification NumberBD431.E94 2002