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Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn from literature, published ethnographies, and firsthand research, this title probes the unobserved moments in our daily lives - waiting for a bus, daydreaming by the window, performing a routine task - and illuminates these 'empty' times as full of significance.

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"[The authors] inspire readers to assess the potential mental value associated with commuting, daydreaming, completing routines, performing rituals, and more." Foreword This Week "The book provides us with timely material that may encourage us to continue to try to join up some of the dots in contemporary politics." -- Mary Evans Times Higher Education

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Waiting

Chapter 2. Routines

Chapter 3. Daydreaming

Chapter 4. In the Backyards of Modernity?

Appendix: Doing an Ethnography of “Non-events”

Notes
References
Index

The Secret World of Doing Nothing

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 01/05/2010
    ISBN13: 9780520262638, 978-0520262638
    ISBN10: 0520262638
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    Social and cultural anthropology

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn from literature, published ethnographies, and firsthand research, this title probes the unobserved moments in our daily lives - waiting for a bus, daydreaming by the window, performing a routine task - and illuminates these 'empty' times as full of significance.

    Trade Review
    "[The authors] inspire readers to assess the potential mental value associated with commuting, daydreaming, completing routines, performing rituals, and more." Foreword This Week "The book provides us with timely material that may encourage us to continue to try to join up some of the dots in contemporary politics." -- Mary Evans Times Higher Education

    Table of Contents
    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Chapter 1. Waiting

    Chapter 2. Routines

    Chapter 3. Daydreaming

    Chapter 4. In the Backyards of Modernity?

    Appendix: Doing an Ethnography of “Non-events”

    Notes
    References
    Index

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