Members of this list might be interested in the following announcement:
The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach
-- new book and website
Daniel Miller, University College London and
Don Slater, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Published by Berg, Oxford UK.
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Dear Colleagues!
If you are interested in Bourdieu and his reception in the
Nordic countries, you may wish to check a text which I have
just put on my home page:
Arctic Bourdieu: Four Nordic theses
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/staff/jproos/bourdieu.htm
Summer Greetings
J P Roos
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J.P.Roos Professor of Social Policy
PB18 00014 The University of Helsinki Finland
Fax +358 9 1917764 Tel +358 9 1917782
Home Page: www.valt.helsinki.fi/staff/jproos/
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Welcome to the 5th ESA Congress in Helsinki,
August 28-September 1, 2001
www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/ www.congcreator.com/esa2001/
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