Product Description

Using primary materials, Highmor brings together a wide range of thinkers to provide a comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life. Highmore's introduction surveys the development of thought about everyday life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #207350 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 392 pages

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

From the Back Cover
Situating the Everyday
Ethnography Near and Far
Everyday things
Everyday life and 'National Culture'
Reclamation work
Contributors: Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Fernand Braudel, Michel de Certeau, Steven Connor, Guy Debord, Sigmund Freud, Betty Friedan, Luce Giard, Jean-Luc Godard, Erving Goffman, Stuart Hall, Harry Harootunian, Alice Kaplan, Mary Kelly, Siegfried Kracauer, Henri Lefebvre, Bronislaw Malinowski, Karal Ann Marling, Mass-Observation, Anne-Marie Miéville, Daniel Miller, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Edgar Morin

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)

Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Fernand Braudel, Michel de Certeau, Steven Connor, Guy Debord, Sigmund Freud, Betty Friedan, Luce Giard, Jean-Luc Godard, Erving Goffman,Stuart Hall, Harry Harootunian, Alice Kaplan, Mary Kelly, Siegfried Kracauer, Henri Lefebvre, Bronislaw Malinowski, Karal Ann Marling, Anne-Marie Mi'eville, Daniel Miller, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Georges Perec,Jacques Ranciere, Kristin Ross, Georg Simmel, Dorothy Smith, Lynn Spigel, Caroline Steedman, Xiaobing Tang, Leon Trotsky, Raymond Williams, Paul Willis.