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In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill London's Natural History Museum. And with the museum's hallways and collection rooms providing a dazzling framework, Fortey offers an often eye-opening social history of the scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.--From publisher description.
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What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty households. It reveals the aspirations and frustrations, the tragedies and accomplishments that are played out behind the doors. It focuses on the things that matter to these people, which quite often turn out to be material things – their house, the dog, their music, the Christmas decorations. These are the means by which they express who they have become, and relationships to objects turn out to be central to their relationships with other people – children, lovers, brothers and friends. If this is a typical street in a modern city like London, then what kind of society is this? It’s not a community, nor a neighbourhood, nor is it a collection of isolated individuals. It isn’t dominated by the family. We assume that social life is corrupted by materialism, made superficial and individualistic by a surfeit of consumer goods, but this is misleading. If the street isn’t any of these things, then what is it? This brilliant and revealing portrayal of a street in modern London, written by one the most prominent anthropologists, shows how much is to be gained when we stop lamenting what we think we used to be and focus instead on what we are now becoming. It reveals the forms by which ordinary people make sense of their lives, and the ways in which objects become our companions in the daily struggle to make life meaningful.
#SBIB:39A72 --- Personal belongings --- Belongings, Personal --- Bundles of personal belongings --- Effects, Personal --- Paraphernalia, Personal --- Personal effects --- Personal paraphernalia --- Personal possessions --- Possessions, Personal --- Etnografie: Europa --- Psychological aspects. --- London (England) --- Social conditions. --- 82:3 --- 82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Psychological aspects --- Social conditions --- Materialism --- Technology --- Material culture --- Matérialisme --- Technologie --- Culture matérielle --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Social psychology --- Sociology of culture --- material culture [discipline] --- materialism [cultural attitude] --- personalia --- London --- Personal belongings - England - London - Psychological aspects --- London (England) - Social conditions
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Microbiology --- Diatoms --- Radiolaria --- Classification. --- Haeckel, Ernst, --- Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried, --- Natural History Museum (London, England) --- Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin --- Catalogs. --- Phaeodaria --- Polycystinea --- Protozoa --- Microorganisms --- Bacillariophyceae --- Bacillariophyta --- Diatomales --- Diatomophyceae --- Algae --- Phytoplankton --- Classification --- Haeckel, Ernst. --- Ehrenberg, C. G. --- Haeckel, Ernest --- Haeckel, Ernst --- British Museum (Natural History) --- Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin, Germany) --- Museum für Naturkunde--Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin --- Museum für Naturkunde--Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin --- Museum für Naturkunde Berlin --- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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Tswana (African people) --- History. --- Missions. --- Social conditions. --- Tswana (Peuple d'Afrique) --- London Missionary Society --- Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:96G --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Geschiedenis van Afrika --- Batswana (African people) --- Batswanas (African people) --- Bechuana (African people) --- Beetjuans (African people) --- Chuana (African people) --- Coana (African people) --- Cuana (African people) --- Tswana (Bantu tribe) --- Tswanas (African people) --- Ethnology --- Sotho (African people) --- History --- Missions --- Social conditions --- Wesleyan Methodist Church. --- Wesleyan Missionary Society --- W.M.M.S. --- WMMS --- Methodist Missionary Society --- LMS --- Congregational Council for World Mission --- Great Britain --- South Africa --- Colonies --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Grande-Bretagne --- Afrique du Sud --- LMS (London Missionary Society) --- Missionary Society (London, England) --- Commonwealth Missionary Society --- Tswana (African people) - History. --- Tswana (African people) - Missions. --- Tswana (African people) - Social conditions. --- Great Britain - Colonies - Africa. --- South Africa - History.
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