Author

Publication

1989 - University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

30,750 words, Guess

Page Count

123 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC973
  • LCCE169.1 .R7752 1989

Description

"Patterns of Americans Culture is a scholarly and peotic pursuit of the concealed energies within this vast incorporation and an analysis of how it shapes society and the lives of individuals. Rose draws from poems by Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams and brings ideas from such sources as performance art and cultural theory to critique this pervasive institutional order. The book closes with a fable of life in a fictitious capitalist society that both comments on ethnographic practice and reveals the disturbing estrangement inherent in any study of this type of culture."--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Contemporary ethnography series

Other Editions

  • Patterns of American culture: ethnography & estrangementUniversity of Pennsylvania Press1989-01-01

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