British subjects : an anthropology of Britain / edited by Nigel Rapport.

Other author Rapport, Nigel, 1956-
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Berg, 2002.
Descriptionxii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Anthropology--Great Britain. --History.
National characteristics, British.
Great Britain--Social life and customs.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001006901
ISBN1859735517 (cloth)
ISBN1859735460 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks GN17.3.G7 B75 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold