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The Everyday Life Reader brings together a wide range of thinkers from Freud to Baudrillard with primary sources on everyday life to provide a 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. Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Fernand Braudel, Michel de Certeau, Steven Connor, Guy Debord, Sigmund Freud, Betty Friedan, Luce Giard, Jean-Luc Godard, Erving Gof

Table of Contents:
Part 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

About the Author :
Ben Highmore is Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the West of England. He is author of the companion volume Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction (Routledge 2001)

Review :
"For both graduate and undergraduate students, this is an excellent survey." -D.W. Sullivan, "Choice, September 2002


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415230247
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 392
  • Width: 174 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0415230241
  • Publisher Date: 13 Dec 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 907 gr


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