Description
Book SynopsisA A highly original and thought--provoking book concerning the nature of ethnography and its importance in social enquiry. A Written by the author of Learning to Labour, this new book is informed by Willisa own ethnographic research.
Trade Review"Willis is at his best in this book when he turns to the data from his 30 years of ethnographic experience. He makes frequest reference to his observations in both
Learning to Labor and the 1990,
Common Culture, so that readers not yet acquainted with these works will not be at a disadvantage. Indeed, his observations are often so insightful that even those who have read one or both books might be tempted to take them up again."
Methodology and Research Techniques "Willis' book is an intriguing attempt to pose questions about doing ethnography in our post-industrial 'leisure societies' ... it presents some genuinely interesting insights and ethnographic vignettes." Discourse & Society
Table of ContentsForeword.
Part One: Art in the Everyday.
Chapter 1: Life as Art.
Chapter 2: Form.
Chapter 3: The Social.
Part Two: Ethnography in Post Modernity.
Chapter 4: The Quasi-Modo Commodity.
Chapter 5: Penetrations in the Post Modern World.
Chapter 6: Social Reproduction as Social History.
Chapter 7: The Ethnographic Imagination and 'Whole Ways of Life'.
Appendix.
Index
