National identity, popular culture and everyday life /

Edensor, Tim, 1957-

National identity, popular culture and everyday life / Tim Edensor. - Oxford ; New York : Berg Publishers, c2002. - viii, 216 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-207) and index.

Popular culture, everyday life and the matrix of national identity. Theories of nationalism : reductive cultural perspectives. Popular culture and national identity. Everyday life and national identity. Conceptualising identity. The redistribution of national identity -- Geography and landscape : national places and spaces. The nation as bounded space. Ideological rural national landscapes. Iconic sites. Sites of popular culture and assembly. Familiar, quotidian landscapes. Dwellingscapes. Homely space. Conclusion -- Performing national identity. Formal rituals and invented ceremonies. Popular rituals : sport and carnival. Staging the nation. Everyday performances : popular competencies, embodied habits and synchronised enactions. Conclusion -- Material culture and national identity. Social relations and object worlds. Commodities and national identity. Material culture and semiotics. Things in place and out of place. The biographies of objects. Automobiles and national car cultures. Conclusion -- Representing the nation : scottishness and Braveheart. Introducing Braveheart. Scotland in film. Battles over Braveheart. Celebrating Braveheart. Criticising Braveheart. Recycling images : the tourist industry, heritage and film in Scotland. Geographies of William Wallace. Other representations of Wallace. Performances and rituals : re-presenting Wallace. The reception of Braveheart outside Scotland. Conclusion -- Exhibiting national identity at the turn of the millennium. 'Self-portrait' at the Millennium Dome. The 'andscape'. Interpretation of the 'andscape'.

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National characteristics.
Ethnopsychology.
Popular culture.

BF753 / .E33 2002

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