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Being all equal : identity, difference and Australian cultural practice / Judith Kapferer
Bib ID 2710683
Format BookBook
Author
Kapferer, Judith
 
Description Oxford ; Washington, D.C., USA : Berg, 1996 
xi, 300 p. ; 23 cm. 
ISBN 1859731066 (paperback)
1859731015 (cloth)
Series

Global Issues, 1354-3644.

Full contents
  • Ch. 1. A Profession of Being All Equal
  • Ch. 2. Ideology and Public Culture: The Work of Mythology
  • Ch. 3. The Discourses of History: Larrikins, Scarlet Women and the Apparatus of Capture
  • Ch. 4. Cultural Space: The Production and Consumption of Symbolic Goods
  • Ch. 5. A Fortunate Style of Life: The Accumulation of Symbolic Capital in Suburbia
  • Ch. 6. Power, Knowledge, Practice: Common Sense and Received Wisdom
  • Ch. 7. The Dream of Community: Bread, Circuses and Ideology
  • Ch. 8. Presenting the Nation to the People: Commodity and Community
  • Ch. 9. The Architecture of Identity: Parliament House and the Stockman's Hall of Fame
  • Ch. 10. Exploring Community, Imagining Society
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-295) and index.

Subjects National characteristics, Australian.  |  Australia -- Social life and customs.  |  Popular culture -- Australia.

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