From Small Talk to Microaggression Memorials & rolls of honour frustration and downright bafflement

frustration and downright bafflement

a painful past written over and repainted

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introduced home cooks to the idea that you don't have to be a vegetarian to eat like one

From Small Talk to Microaggression Memorials & rolls of honour frustration and downright bafflementA provocative and eye opening history of how we have studied and theorized social interaction. In this ambitious, wide ranging book, anthropologist Michael Lempert offers a conceptual history that explores how, why, and with what effects we have come to think of interactions as "scaled." Focusing on the sciences of interaction in midcentury America, Lempert traces how they harnessed diverse tools and media technologies, from dictation machines to 16mm