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What this book represents is, quite literally, a "slice" of (white) Australian life. By noting the patterns and parallels that emerge in a random sampling of social phenomena of widely varying types, from soap operas to political behaviour, Gaile McGregor has constructed a model that, in i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGregor, Gaile, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©1994.
Temas:
Since 1976
Australian literature > History and criticism.
Littérature australienne > Histoire et critique.
Australian literature
Civilization
Social conditions
Aufsatzsammlung
Australia > Civilization > 1976-1990.
Australia > Social conditions > 1976-
Australia > Civilization.
Australie > Civilisation.
Australia
Australien
Culture
Comparisons
Australia > Civilization
Australia > Intellectual life
Australian literature > History and criticism
National characteristics, Australian
Popular culture > Australia
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:What this book represents is, quite literally, a "slice" of (white) Australian life. By noting the patterns and parallels that emerge in a random sampling of social phenomena of widely varying types, from soap operas to political behaviour, Gaile McGregor has constructed a model that, in its challenge to uniformitarianism, is a test case in ethnographic theory. Using methods ranging from the hermeneutic through the structuralist to the psychoanalytic, McGregor deploys the self-evidence of communal life and language to establish not only that all cultural phenomena are "patterned," but that th
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 336 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780889207004
0889207003
1282232916
9781282232914
9786613810656
6613810657

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