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British subjects : an anthropology of Britain
Title
British subjects : an anthropology of Britain / edited by Nigel Rapport.
ISBN
100018059X
1474214487
1845206355
9781000180596
9781474214483
9781845206352
1859735460
1859735517
9781859735466
9781859735510
Published
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
The anthropology of Britain is hotly debated. What does it mean to live in Britain and to be 'British', and is an anthropology of Britain even a legitimate undertaking? British Subjects presents a forthright voice in this debate. Key anthropological concerns such as community, rationality, aesthetics, the body, power, work and leisure, nationalism and transnationalism are found reflected in the lives of a wide range of British 'subjects'--from farmers to dancers, children to retired miners, new- agers to entrepreneurs. In disputing traditional claims that anthropology 'at home' and 'of one's.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: British subjects. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2002
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction, 'Best of British!' : an introduction to the anthropology of Britain / Nigel Rapport
Subject positions and 'real royalists' : monarchy and vernacular civil religion in Great Britain / Anne Rowbottom
National day : achieving collective identity on the Isle of Man / Susan Lewis
Aesthetics at the ballet : looking at 'national' style, body and clothing in the London dance world / Helena Wulff
On 'old things' : the fetishization of past everyday life / Sharon Macdonald
Leisure and change in a post-mining mining town / Andrew Dawson
Dissociation, social technology and the spiritual domain / Tanya Luhrmann
English child : toward a cultural politics of childhood identities / Allison James
Bits and bytes of information / Jeanette Edwards
Culture in a network : dykes, webs and women in London and Manchester / Sarah Green
Interviews as ethnography? : disembodied social interaction in Britain / Jenny Hockey
Entering secure psychiatric settings / Christine Brown
Cultural values and social organization in Wales : is ethnicity the locus of culture? / Carol Trosset and Douglas Caulkins
Armenian and other diasporas : trying to reconcile the irreconcilable / Vered Amit
Both independent and interconnected voices : Bakhtin among the Quakers / Peter Collins
Body of the village community : between Reverend Parkington in Wanet and Mr Beebe in A Room with a View / Nigel Rapport
Epilogue, 'Best of British'
with more to come / Anthony P. Cohen.
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