British subjects : an anthropology of Britain /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rapport, Nigel, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2002.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, 'Best of British!' : an introduction to the anthropology of Britain / Nigel Rapport
  • Subject positions and 'real royalists' : monarchy and vernacular civil religion in Great Britain / Anne Rowbottom
  • National day : achieving collective identity on the Isle of Man / Susan Lewis
  • Aesthetics at the ballet : looking at 'national' style, body and clothing in the London dance world / Helena Wulff
  • On 'old things' : the fetishization of past everyday life / Sharon Macdonald
  • Leisure and change in a post-mining mining town / Andrew Dawson
  • Dissociation, social technology and the spiritual domain / Tanya Luhrmann
  • English child : toward a cultural politics of childhood identities / Allison James
  • Bits and bytes of information / Jeanette Edwards
  • Culture in a network : dykes, webs and women in London and Manchester / Sarah Green
  • Interviews as ethnography? : disembodied social interaction in Britain / Jenny Hockey
  • Entering secure psychiatric settings / Christine Brown
  • Cultural values and social organization in Wales : is ethnicity the locus of culture? / Carol Trosset and Douglas Caulkins
  • Armenian and other diasporas : trying to reconcile the irreconcilable / Vered Amit
  • Both independent and interconnected voices : Bakhtin among the Quakers / Peter Collins
  • Body of the village community : between Reverend Parkington in Wanet and Mr Beebe in A Room with a View / Nigel Rapport
  • Epilogue, 'Best of British'
  • with more to come / Anthony P. Cohen.