Practicing culture
By: [edited by] Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett.
Contributors: Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-; Sennett, Richard, 1943-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780415412513; 9780415412506
Subjects: Culture; Ethnology; Manners and customs; National characteristics
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett; title: "We have never been German" : the economy of digging in Russian Kaliningrad / Olga Sezneva; title: Practicing poetry : a career without a job / Ailsa Craig; title: Hot glass : the calorific imagination of practice in glassblowing / Erin O'Connor; title: State power as field work : culture and practice in the French survey of historic landmarks / Alexandra Kowalski; title: New and improved nations : branding national identity / Melissa Aronczyk; title: Facts in the city : how London accountants simplify decisions / Matthew Gill; title: Managing doubt : professional wrestling jargon and the making of "smart fans" / Marion Wrenn; title: Beauty at the gallery : sentimental education and operatic community in contemporary Buenos Aires / Claudio Benzecry; title: The erotic life of electric hair clippers : a social history / Alton Phillips; title: Practicing authorship : the case of Brecht's plays / Monika Krause.