The Life and Death of Privacy in the West: The Ethnography of a Social and Aesthetic Concept

by Marty Roth

Contours of Privacy consists of four sections: Privacy and the Private, Public and Private, Invasions of Privacy: Surveillance and Voyeurism, and the Erosion of Privacy. The first chapter tries to locate this entity (?What is privacy and why does it belong to us? Is it an enclosure, an order of things??), recounts its history, and follows its trails of meaning under three categories: ?the contents of the self, the shameful private, and ?in private.?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936320533
• ISBN13: 9781936320530
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Academica Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"