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The Everyday Life Reader ISBN: 041523025X ISBN13: 9780415230254 The Everyday Life Reader By: Edited by Ben Highmore Publisher: Routledge Format: Paperback Our Price: 21.99

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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


Contents:

Part I Situating the everyday: parapraxes Sigmund Freud
- preface to the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel
- front and back regions of everyday life, Erving Goffmann
- the problem that has no name , Betty Friedan
- general introduction from The Practice of Everyday Life , Michel de Certeau
- a feminist methodology, Dorothy Smith
- introduction from everyday life - Yale French studies

Part II Everyday life and National Culture , Alice Kaplan and Kristin Ross
- habit and custom, Leon Trotsky
- from The Road to Wigan Pier diary, George Orwell
- whose imagined community?, Partha Chatterjee
- Nixon in Moscow, Karal Ann Marling
- introduction to fast cars, clean bodies, Kristin Ross
- the promise of modern life , Harry Hatoonian
- new urban culture and the anxiety of everyday life in late-20th-century-China

Part III Ethnography near and far, Xiaobing Tang
- proper conditions for ethnographic work, Bronislaw Malinowski
- mass-observation - Two Letters and They Speak for Themselves mass observation
- the Kabyle House or the world reversed, Pierre Bourdieu
- approaches to what?, George Perec
- documentation VI - pre-writing alphabet, exerque and diary, Mary Kelly
- France/tour/detour/two/children, Jean-Luc Godard and Ann Marie Mi'eville
- reassemblage

Part IV Reclamation work, Trinh T

Minh-Ha: work and leisure in everyday life, Henri Lefebrve
- perspectives for conscious alternations in everyday life, Guy Debord
- history from below, E.P

Thompson
- landscape for a good woman, Caroline Steedman
- symbolic creativity

Part V Everyday things, Paul Willis: boredom, Siegfried Kracauer
- plastic, Roland Barthes
- structures of interior design, Jean Baudrillard
- doing cooking, Luce Giard
- installing the television set, Lynn Spiegel
- making love in supermarkets, Daniel Miller
- rough magic - bags, Steven Connor.


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Using 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.

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