Practicing culture /
edited by Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett.
- New York : Routledge, 2007.
- x, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Taking culture seriously .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
9780415412506 (pbk.)
2007004042
GBA6A1138 bnb
Culture. Ethnology. Manners and customs. National characteristics.