For the Time Being: Ethnography of Everyday Life

by Richard Quinney

Book Overview

This book from start to finish is a study in the passing of time. And it is the passing of the writer in the course of time. We who remain as readers--you and I--imagine another time and another place. We then move on to what is to come next.

An artifact of a lived experience, this is a document of a life lived in the course of a decade. The writing--the process of writing--was part of the living. In some cases, the writing was the living,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791438511
• ISBN13: 9780791438510
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.