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Book Description

Publication Date: December 30, 2001 | ISBN-10: 041523025X | ISBN-13: 978-0415230254

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

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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

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For both graduate and undergraduate students, this is an excellent survey.
–D.W. Sullivan, Choice, September 2002

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)

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Paperback: 392 pages
Publisher: Routledge (December 30, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 041523025X
ISBN-13: 978-0415230254
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 0.9 inches
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HOW THE EVERYDAY IS SITUATED is of course a crucial issue for attending to it. Read the first page

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