EcCentric Visions : Re Constructing Australia.

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGregor, Gaile
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
Temas:
1976-1990
Australian literature > History and criticism.
National characteristics, Australian.
Popular culture > Australia.
History.
History
Littérature australienne > Histoire et critique.
Australiens.
Culture populaire > Australie.
Histoire.
history (discipline)
HISTORY > Australia & New Zealand.
Australian literature.
Civilization.
Intellectual life.
Popular culture.
Social conditions.
Australia > Civilization.
Australia > Intellectual life.
Australia > Social conditions > 1976-1990.
Australie > Civilisation.
Australie > Vie intellectuelle.
Australia.
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 (349 pages)
ISBN:9780889207004
0889207003

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