Ruling Passions: Essays On Just About Everything

Author: Nick Perry

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  • : 45.00 NZD
  • : 9781877372896
  • : University of Otago Press
  • : University of Otago Press
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  • : August 2011
  • : 230x155mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : 45.0
  • : September 2011
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  • : Nick Perry
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  • : 1st Edition
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Barcode 9781877372896
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Description

These are interesting essays by one of Australasia’s leading media and social science intellectuals. ‘Culture’ is often seen as somehow elevated above daily life (set in a rarefied realm) or set apart from it (e.g. the anthropological study of cultures other than our own). But for contemporary sociologists and media theorists, culture is better seen as the matter-of-fact practice and taken-for-granted nature of everyday life. Culture is inherent to how the world is made to mean, how knowledge is produced andhow society functions.

Author description

Nick Perry is well placed to interrogate the stuff of daily life. In Ruling Passions, his lucid, enjoyable and probing essays on shopping, telephoning, watching TV, playing sport, gambling and travel show us how we can ‘read’ our own environments and, in so doing, interpret the world around us and our place within it.