Patterns of American Culture : : Ethnography and Estrangement / / Dan Rose.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Rose, Dan,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary Ethnography
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (126 p.) :; 8 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. Colonization --; 2. Estrangement and Spatial Inscription --; 3. Pre-Capitalist Exchanges --; 4. Capitalist Social Forms --; 5. Nonprofit Entrepreneur --; 6. The Masks --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512809626; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512809626
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dan Rose.

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 author contents that the purpose of the corporate structures underlying American life is to create new resources, new products, new landscapes, new ideas, and new markets. Through written rules and unwritten customs, these corporations determine who we are and what we can do.