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Title:

Practicing culture / edited by Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

x, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Culture.
Ethnology.
Manners and customs.
National characteristics.

Other Authors:

Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-
Sennett, Richard, 1943-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"We have never been German" : the economy of digging in Russian Kaliningrad / Olga Sezneva -- Practicing poetry : a career without a job / Ailsa Craig -- Hot glass : the calorific imagination of practice in glassblowing / Erin O'Connor -- State power as field work : culture and practice in the French survey of historic landmarks / Alexandra Kowalski -- New and improved nations : branding national identity / Melissa Aronczyk -- Facts in the city : how London accountants simplify decisions / Matthew Gill -- Managing doubt : professional wrestling jargon and the making of "smart fans" / Marion Wrenn -- Beauty at the gallery : sentimental education and operatic community in contemporary Buenos Aires / Claudio Benzecry -- The erotic life of electric hair clippers : a social history / Alton Phillips -- Practicing authorship : the case of Brecht's plays / Monika Krause.

Series:

Taking culture seriously

ISBN:

020394495X (ebk.)
9780203944950 (ebk.)
0415412501 (pbk.)
9780415412506 (pbk.)
041541251X (hbk.)
9780415412513 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)81252748

LCCN:

2007004042

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)