TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lfgren,Orvar
AU  - Ehn,Billy
TI  - The Secret World of Doing Nothing
SN  - 9780520945708 (electronic bk.)
AV  - GV14 .E35 2010
U1  - 301 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Leisure
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - The Secret World of Doing Nothing; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Waiting; 2. Routines; 3. Daydreaming; 4. In the Backyards of Modernity?; Appendix: Doing an Ethnography of "Non-events"; Notes; References; Index
N2  - "This is one of those rare books that causes you to rethink all your previous understandings of both time and space, to pay attention to what you have hitherto ignored or belittled. Full of fascinating detail, Ehn and Lofgren's work opens up a whole new field of inquiry."John Gillis, author of Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World "This is a beautifully written and elegant book, deeply thoughtful but accessible to anyone. The Secret World of Doing Nothing is an essential field guide for understanding daily life; a delightful way to find out w
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