Off Stage/On Display: Intimacy and Ethnography in the Age of Public Culture

by Andrew Shryock

Book Overview

Why are public identities so predictably, and often so radically, different from identities that flourish in realms of collective intimacy? Why does belonging to a group, knowing about it, or displaying its qualities to others require that certain aspects of identification be denied-not because they are false or stereotypical, but because they are thought to be accurate and indispensable signs of membership?

In Off Stage/On Display,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804750076
• ISBN13: 9780804750073
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"