Practicing Culture

Edited by Craig Calhoun, Richard Sennett

Series: Taking Culture Seriously 

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Table of Contents

1. 'We Have Never Been German': The Economy of Digging in Russian Kaliningrad 2. Practicing Poetry: A Career Without a Job 3. Hot Glass: The Calorific Imagination of Practice in Glassblowing 4. State Power as Field Work: Culture and Practice in the French Survey of Historic Landmarks 5. New and Improved Nations: Branding National Identity 6. Facts in the City: How London Accountants Simplify Decisions 7. Managing Doubt: Professional Wrestling Jargon and the Making of 'Smart Fans' 8. Beauty at the Gallery: Sentimental Education and Operatic Community in Contemporary Buenos Aires 9. The Erotic Life of Electric Hair Clippers: A Social History 10. Practicing Authorship: The Case of Brecht’s Plays

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