 | Patterns of American Culture: Ethnography and Estrangement Subjects: United States -- Civilization; United States -- Civilization -- 1945-; Ethnology -- United States; Corporations -- United States; Industry -- Social aspects -- United States; Dan Rose draws on the fact and metaphor of colonization to demonstrate that the central motive in the contemporary United States has been--and continues to be--the corporate form, the purpose of which is to create new resources, new products, new landscapes, new ideas, and new markets. These corporations determine who we are and what we can do. Dan Rose is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Ethnographic Writing, Energy Transition and the Local Community and Black American Street Life. |
