TY - BOOK AU - Certeau, Michel de AU - Rendal, Steven F. TI - The Practice of Everyday Life SN - 9780520271456 U1 - VSCL PY - 2011/// CY - California PB - University of California Press KW - Anthropology KW - Consumerism KW - Cultural and social KW - Sociology N1 - In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws brilliantly on an immense theoretical literature to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature ER -