The Practice of Everyday Life

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The Practice of Everyday Life

• Michel de Certeau
• Luce Giard
• Pierre Mayol

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Michel de Certeau

• Anti-conformist
• Jesuit priest
• Historian
• Scholar in psychology
• Anthropologist

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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.

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The Neighborhood

• Organization of everyday life
• Behaviors and Expected symbolic benefits
  discourse of meaning
• PROPRIETY

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The Croix-Rousse Neighborhood

• Canut buildings
• Influx of artisans
• The R. family

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Bread and Wine

• Bread is shared
• Wine is offered

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Theres always Robert

• Grocer
• The Confidant
• Keeper of the passage of time and moderation
  The sticker card

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Soup of the Day

• Food Behaviors
• Doing Cooking
• Manets Le Dejeuner sur LHerbe

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A Four Entry Dictionary

• Ingredients
• Cooking Appliances
• The performance
• Finished products

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Ghosts in the City

• A population of legendary objects
• A city without a language the spirits of the
  place
• Restoration economy

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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)

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The Practice of Everyday Life

• Review by Beryl Lenger in Contemporary Sociology,
  January 1988

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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.

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The End