The Practice of Everyday Life, Vol. 2: Living and Cooking

The Practice of Everyday Life, Vol. 2: Living and Cooking
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To remain unconsumed by consumer societyâ€”this was the goal, pursued through a world of subtle and practical means, that beckoned throughout the first volume of The Practice of Everyday Life. The second volume of the work delves even deeper than did the first into the subtle tactics of resistance and private practices that make living a subversive art. Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard, and Pierre Mayol develop a social history of â€œmaking doâ€ based on microhistories that move from the private sphere (of dwelling, cooking, and homemaking) to the public (the experience of living in a neighborhood). A series of interviewsâ€”mostly with womenâ€”allows us to follow the subjectsâ€™ individual routines, composed of the habits, constraints, and inventive strategies by which the speakers negotiate daily life. Through these accounts the speakers, â€œordinaryâ€ people all, are revealed to be anything but passive consumers. Amid these experiences and voices, the ephemeral inventions of the â€œobscure heroesâ€ of the everyday, we watch the art of making do become the art of living.This long-awaited second volume of de Certeauâ€™s masterwork, updated and revised in this first English edition, completes the picture begun in volume 1, drawing to the last detail the collective practices that define the texture, substance, and importance of the everyday.Michel de Certeau (1925-1986) wrote numerous books that have been translated into English, including Heterologies (1986), The Capture of Speech (1998), and Culture in the Plural (1998), all published by Minnesota. Luce Giard is senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and is affiliated with the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She is visiting professor of history and history of science at the University of California, San Diego. Pierre Mayol is a researcher in the French Ministry of Culture in Paris.Timothy J. Tomasik is a freelance translator pursuing a Ph.D. in French literature at Harvard University.
Country USA
Brand University of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer University of Minnesota Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
ReleaseDate 1998-10-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780816628773

Country	USA
Brand	University of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer	University of Minnesota Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
ReleaseDate	1998-10-22
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780816628773

The Practice of Everyday Life, Vol. 2: Living and Cooking

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