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Author Dorst, John D

Title Written Suburb : an American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Series Contemporary Ethnography
Contemporary ethnography.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Postmodernity as an Ethnographic Dilemma; 1. Chadds Ford Souvenirs; 2. Some History; 3. Chadds Ford as a Site of Postmodernity: Veneers, Vignettes, and the Myth of Tradition; 4. Chadds Ford Days: Living History and the Closed Space Postmodem Consumption; 5. An Allegory of Museums: A Comparative Reading of Two Gallery Displays; Conclusion: Self-Estrangements; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Notes Print version record
Subject Suburban life -- Pennsylvania -- Chadds Ford
Suburban life -- United States -- Case studies
Postmodernism -- Pennsylvania -- Chadds Ford
Postmodernism -- United States -- Case studies
Tourism -- Pennsylvania -- Chadds Ford
Tourism -- United States -- Case studies
Ethnology -- Pennsylvania -- Chadds Ford
Ethnology -- United States -- Case studies
Ethnology.
Manners and customs.
Postmodernism.
Suburban life.
Tourism.
SUBJECT Chadds Ford (Pa.) -- Social life and customs
Subject Pennsylvania -- Chadds Ford.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812208443
0812208447