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The Practice of Everyday Life

The Practice of Everyday Life. Michel de Certeau Luce Giard Pierre Mayol. Michel de Certeau. Anti-conformist Jesuit priest Historian Scholar in psychology Anthropologist. What is culture ?. Self creation Displacing attention from passive consumption to anonymous creation

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The Practice of Everyday Life

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  1. The Practice of Everyday Life Michel de Certeau Luce Giard Pierre Mayol

  2. Michel de Certeau • Anti-conformist • Jesuit priest • Historian • Scholar in psychology • Anthropologist

  3. What is culture ? • Self creation • Displacing attention from passive consumption to anonymous creation • Interest not in cultured products but in the procedures that make use of them.

  4. The Neighborhood Organization of everyday life: Behaviors and Expected symbolic benefits: discourse of meaning PROPRIETY

  5. The Croix-Rousse Neighborhood • Canut buildings • Influx of artisans • The R. family

  6. Bread and Wine • Bread is shared • Wine is offered

  7. There’s always Robert • Grocer • The Confidant • Keeper of the passage of time and moderation – The sticker card

  8. Soup of the Day • Food Behaviors • Doing Cooking • Manet’s Le Dejeuner sur L’Herbe

  9. A Four Entry Dictionary • Ingredients • Cooking Appliances • The performance • Finished products

  10. Ghosts in the City • A population of legendary objects • A city without a language – the spirits of the place • Restoration economy

  11. A practical science of the singular • Orality – founding role is in the relation to the other • Operativity – culture is judged by its operations, not by the possession of products • The ordinary – making do (faire-avec)

  12. The Practice of Everyday Life Review by Beryl Lenger in Contemporary Sociology, January 1988

  13. Review • The Practice of Everyday Life is an attempt to theorize the tactics and practices by which “ordinary people subvert the dominant economic order from within. … • Everyday life, he says, reinvents itself by poaching on the property of others.

  14. The End

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