pare gle ne | THE PRACTICE OF _TEVERYDAY-LIFE - i | we i § * ; | 4 q ' | : 4 w a i UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS q BertceyLasAngler London | 4 A‘sry inte Un See an de ste oan pmb oan ce ‘etter actes nc tye UC Ps ‘Beat ye sin tom ma Seino hoger Cua ete ne 0198 ae ee ft ey tates enti i 88 "bey of Cogs Cag in enn Dat To the ordinary man. ‘To's common hero, an abiguitos character watkng in counts ‘Mousa onthe srs In nvoking Here athe outset of my aratves the absent igure who provides bo heir begining and thir neces. inguin the desir whose posible object he eepesent- What ae sneaking this orale whore vice almost indstingwohable frm the umble of history to cent ws, to authorize ws oy, when we dedicate tori he writing that one former fered in rae ofthe gods or the tnsprng mass? “This anonymous hero is very ancient He tthe murmarng voice of societies Im ll ages, he comes before texts. He docs not expect {presentations esque now a the ener of our scien stges. The ‘oulights have moved aay from the ators eho posses proper names and roi blazos. turning fist (Ovard the chorus of secondary Charter, she sting onthe mateo he audience. The inetessingly fociologcel and anthropological perspective of inquiry privileges the ftonymous sed she evesyday in which t00m lenges cutout metonymie Aetas—pare taken for the whole. Slowly the repesetatives that formerly smbolzed famils, groups, and orders disappear fom the Hage they dominated during the epoch ofthe mare. We witess the ‘vent ofthe number. cons tong with democracy, he large cy. ‘Sdminstations,oybernetcs Its exible and cotinuoes mas, woven tio like a fates with neither sips nar darted patches,» mite of ‘anid heroes who love nares and face ty becomes te cpheed fiver ofthe sets, a mobile langage of computations and rationales ‘hat tong to nooneWas pees - Contents ' Pectace ix PARTI: A VERY ORDINARY CULTURE 1 1. Common Pace: Ordinary Language 1 1, Popular Cultures: Ondinary Landings is INE “Making Do": Uses and Tats . » PARTI THEORIES OF THEARTOF PRACTICE, "43 1V, Foucault and Bourdieu “s ¥. The Arts of Theory o V1. Story Time . n PARTI: SPATIAL PRACTICES on ‘VIL atking i he City 31 1%. Spatial Stories us PART IV: Uses f Language br 1X. The Sciiptural Economy br XL Quotations of Voies 154 XII. Reading as Poschii 16s PART V: WAYS OF BELIEVING _ m IIL Beiving and Making People Believe om XIV, The Unsamabie 0. Internat 9 Notes 20s