Keywords a vocabulary of culture and society / Raymond Williams.
Publication details: London : Fontana, 1988.Description: 341 pagesISBN:- 9780006861508
- 0006861504
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| 306.3 STI The sociology of consumption : a global approach / | 306.4 BAN Rethinking visual anthropology / | 306.4 DAR Visual digital display: surface play and spectacle in new media genres | 306.44 WIL Keywords a vocabulary of culture and society / | 306.45 DAC Tactical biopolitics : art, activism, and technoscience / | 306.45 HAR Simians, cyborgs and women the reinvention of nature | 306.45 MIL Biopolitics / |
Originally published: Flamingo, 1983.
Includes bibliographical references.
Raymond Williams' seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language. First published in 1976, and expanded in 1983, Keywords reveals how the meanings of 131 words - including `art', `class', `family', `media', `sex' and `tradition' - were formed and subsequently altered and redefined as the historical contexts in which they were used changed. Neither a defining dictionary or glossary, Keywords is rather a brilliant investigation into how the meanings of some of the most important words in the English language have shifted over time, and the forces that brought about those shifts.