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Fowler, Bridget

 
9780415871303: The Obituary as Collective Memory

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The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Bridget Fowler is a Professor at the University of Glasgow, specialising in the sociology of culture, Marxist-feminism and social theory. Her previous publications include The Alienated Reader (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991), Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory (Sage, 1997), and an edited volume, Reading Bourdieu on Society and Culture (Blackwell, 2000).

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9780415364935: The Obituary as Collective Memory

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ISBN 10:  0415364930 ISBN 13:  9780415364935
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007
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