A Genealogy Of Manners

Author : Jorge Arditi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226025845
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Genealogy of Manners written by Jorge Arditi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable for its scope and erudition, Jorge Arditi's new study offers a fascinating history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the pioneering ideas of Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu, Arditi examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over time. Analyzing courtesy manuals and etiquette books from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century, Arditi shows how the dominant classes of a society were able to create a system of social relations and put it into operation. The result was an infrastructure in which these classes could successfully exert power. He explores how the ecclesiastical authorities of the Middle Ages, the monarchies from the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, and the aristocracies during the early stages of modernity all forged their own codes of manners within the confines of another, dominant order. Arditi goes on to describe how each of these different groups, through the sustained deployment of their own forms of relating with one another, gradually moved into a position of dominance.

Author : Jorge Arditi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226025834
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Genealogy of Manners written by Jorge Arditi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable for its scope and erudition, Jorge Arditi's new study offers a fascinating history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the pioneering ideas of Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu, Arditi examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over time. Analyzing courtesy manuals and etiquette books from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century, Arditi shows how the dominant classes of a society were able to create a system of social relations and put it into operation. The result was an infrastructure in which these classes could successfully exert power. He explores how the ecclesiastical authorities of the Middle Ages, the monarchies from the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, and the aristocracies during the early stages of modernity all forged their own codes of manners within the confines of another, dominant order. Arditi goes on to describe how each of these different groups, through the sustained deployment of their own forms of relating with one another, gradually moved into a position of dominance.

Author : Patrick Jory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108491243
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand written by Patrick Jory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative new social history of Thailand told through the lens of changing ideals of manners, civility and behaviour.

Author : C. Dallett Hemphill
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195154088
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bowing to Necessities written by C. Dallett Hemphill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society? Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out--and thus reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.

Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Manners written by Norbert Elias and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1982 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Jory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108871496
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand written by Patrick Jory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manners have long been a central concern of Thai society. Kings, aristocrats, prime ministers, monks, army generals, politicians, poets, novelists, journalists and teachers have produced a large corpus of literature that sets out models of appropriate behaviour. These include such things as how to stand, walk, sit, pay homage, prostrate oneself in the presence of high-status people, sleep, eat, manage bodily functions, dress, pay respect to superiors, deal with inferiors, socialize, and play. These modes of conduct have been taught or enforced by families, monasteries, court society, and, in the twentieth century, the state, through the education system, the bureaucracy, and the mass media. In this innovative new social history, based on Thai manners and etiquette manuals dating from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, Patrick Jory presents the first ever history of manners in Thailand and challenges the idea of Western influence as the determinant of change in ideals of conduct.

Author : Paul Lacroix
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368264680
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Manners, Customs and Dress during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period written by Paul Lacroix and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Lacroix
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368264699
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Manners, Customs and Dress during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period written by Paul Lacroix and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628469633
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manners and Southern History written by Ted Ownby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Catherine Clinton, Joseph Crespino, Jane Dailey, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Anya Jabour, John F. Kasson, Jennifer Ritterhouse, and Charles F. Robinson II The concept of southern manners may evoke images of debutantes being introduced to provincial society or it might conjure thoughts of the humiliating behavior white supremacists expected of African Americans under Jim Crow. The essays in Manners and Southern History analyze these topics and more. Scholars here investigate the myriad ways in which southerners from the Civil War through the civil rights movement understood manners. Contributors write about race, gender, power, and change. Essays analyze the ways southern white women worried about how to manage anger during the Civil War, the complexities of trying to enforce certain codes of behavior under segregation, and the controversy of college women's dating lives in the raucous 1920s. Writers study the background and meaning of Mardi Gras parades and debutante balls, the selective enforcement of anti-miscegenation laws, and arguments over the form that opposition to desegregation should take. Concluding essays by Jane Dailey and John F. Kasson summarize and critique the other articles and offer a broader picture of the role that manners played in the social history of the South.