Title: Patterns of American culture :
Authors: Rose, Dan.
Date: 1989
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Physical description: 123 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: E
Abstract: "Patterns of Americans Culture is a scholarly and peotic pursuit of the concealed energies within this vast incorporation and an analysis of how it shapes society and the lives of individuals. Rose draws from poems by Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams and brings ideas from such sources as performance art and cultural theory to critique this pervasive institutional order. The book closes with a fable of life in a fictitious capitalist society that both comments on ethnographic practice and reveals the disturbing estrangement inherent in any study of this type of culture."--Page 4 of cover.
Contents: Colonization -- Estrangement and spatial inscription -- Pre-capitalist exchanges -- Capitalist social forms -- Nonprofit entrepreneur -- Masks.
Subject headings (LCSH): Corporations--United States.; Ethnology--United States.; Industries--Social aspects--United States.; United States--Civilization--1945-; United States--Civilization.