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Patterns of American Culture - Ethnography and Estrangement (Hardcover)
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Patterns of American Culture - Ethnography and Estrangement (Hardcover)
Series: Anniversary Collection
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Dan Rose has explored the American status system for decades. His
ethnographic research into black South Philadelphia, the business
community of Hazleton Pennsylvania, and the large horse farms of
Chester County Pennsylvania is drawn together here to examine the
cultural forms that shape American life at every level. In Patterns
of American Culture, Rose draws on the fact and metaphor of
colonization to demonstrate that the central motive in the
contemporary United States has been and continues to be the
corporate form. He begins by considering our origins as a
collection of colonies, each of which was constructed as a private
corporation whose purpose was to make money for its investors by
providing new goods and different markets for England. Rose
contends that the structure underlying American life are still
corporate and that their purpose is to create new resources, new
products, new landscapes, new ideas, and new markets. Today, most
Americans have multiple corporate memberships-in city and state
governments, in the businesses that employ them, in professional
organizations or unions, and in various civic and political
associations. Further, through written rules and unwritten customs,
these corporations determine who we are and what we can do.
Patterns of American Culture is a scholarly and poetic 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. This narrative ethnography will interest scholars and
students of American studies, anthropology, English, folklore, and
sociology, and members of the design professions, such as
architecture, landscape, and urban design.
General
Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Anniversary Collection |
Release date: |
June 1989 |
First published: |
1989 |
Authors: |
Dan Rose
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
138 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8122-8165-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Anthropology >
General
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LSN: |
0-8122-8165-9 |
Barcode: |
9780812281651 |
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