The authors provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical, recent, and emerging scholarship and grounded in original empirical data that deepens the review and analysis.
The authors provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classic...
In Popular Culture and Everyday Life Phillip Vannini and Dennis Waskul have brought together a variety of short essays that illustrate the many ways that popular culture intersects with mundane experiences of everyday life. Most essays are written in a reflexive ethnographic style, primarily through observation and personal narrative, to convey insights at an intimate level that will resonate with most readers. Some of the topics are so mundane they are legitimately universal (sleeping, getting dressed, going to the bathroom, etc.), others are common enough that most readers will...
In Popular Culture and Everyday Life Phillip Vannini and Dennis Waskul have brought together a variety of short essays that illustrate the m...
In Popular Culture and Everyday Life Phillip Vannini and Dennis Waskul have brought together a variety of short essays that illustrate the many ways that popular culture intersects with mundane experiences of everyday life. Most essays are written in a reflexive ethnographic style, primarily through observation and personal narrative, to convey insights at an intimate level that will resonate with most readers. Some of the topics are so mundane they are legitimately universal (sleeping, getting dressed, going to the bathroom, etc.), others are common enough that most readers will...
In Popular Culture and Everyday Life Phillip Vannini and Dennis Waskul have brought together a variety of short essays that illustrate the m...
"In the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling . I am startled but not afraid . Mostly, I am engrossed; I have never seen anything like this before (or since) and it fascinates me. "Dennis Waskul writes these lines about his first-hand experience with the supernatural in the introduction to his beguiling book "Ghostly Encounters. "Based on two years of fieldwork and interviews with 71 midwestern Americans, the Waskuls book is a reflexive ethnography that examines how people experience ghosts and hauntings in everyday life. The...
"In the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling . I am startled but not afraid . Mostly,...
In the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling . I am startled but not afraid . Mostly, I am engrossed; I have never seen anything like this before (or since) and it fascinates me. Dennis Waskul writes these lines about his first-hand experience with the supernatural in the introduction to his beguiling book Ghostly Encounters. Based on two years of fieldwork and interviews with 71 midwestern Americans, the Waskuls book is a reflexive ethnography that examines how people experience ghosts and hauntings...
In the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling . I am startled but not afraid . M...
