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Culture Builders deals primarily with the ways in which ideas about the good and proper life are anchored in the trivialities and routines of everyday life: in the sharing of a meal, in holiday-making, and in the upbringing of children. .

Table of Contents
Foreword by John Gillis
Introduction
Rational and Sensitive: Changing Attitudes to Time, Nature, and the Home
1. The Time Keepers
2. The Nature Lovers
3. The Home Builders
Clean and Proper: Body and Soul Through Peasant and Bourgeois Eyes
4. The Cultural Basis of Physical Aversion
5. Peasant Views of Purity and Dirt
6. Bourgeois Discipline
Conclusion: A Culture On the Move
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Culture Builders A Historical Anthropology of

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/1987
      ISBN13: 9780813512396, 978-0813512396
      ISBN10: 0813512395

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Culture Builders deals primarily with the ways in which ideas about the good and proper life are anchored in the trivialities and routines of everyday life: in the sharing of a meal, in holiday-making, and in the upbringing of children. .

      Table of Contents
      Foreword by John Gillis
      Introduction
      Rational and Sensitive: Changing Attitudes to Time, Nature, and the Home
      1. The Time Keepers
      2. The Nature Lovers
      3. The Home Builders
      Clean and Proper: Body and Soul Through Peasant and Bourgeois Eyes
      4. The Cultural Basis of Physical Aversion
      5. Peasant Views of Purity and Dirt
      6. Bourgeois Discipline
      Conclusion: A Culture On the Move
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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