Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle-Class Life

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 320 pages
• Published by: Rutgers Univ Pr April 1987
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0813512395
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813512396
• Book Dimensions: 7.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Language Notes
Text: English, Swedish (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reader Reviews
Culture builders was one of the first anthropology books I read, and now some 6 years later, I still count it among the best ones I have read. Its importance to me was in the fact that it introduced me to the anthropology of lot of really interesting concepts: dirt, love, time, sex. Immediately after reading this book I ran out and got Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger. What Mary Douglas does for Leviticus, and in general, Culture Builders does for the 18th century Swedish middle-class. If you are interested in Douglas, then I would recommend this book for another application of her views.