EVERYDAY LIFE

In Everyday Life Joseph A. Amato offers a panoramic account of the evolution of our daily existence and reflects on the complex and changing textures of everyday life. Beginning with societies of scarcity and relative lack of change and ending with our own twenty- first-century lives, he ranges widely through topics as varied as dirt and muck, walking and the charm of spices, and through time f rom early agriculture to mechanization and the modern urban existence.Amato argues that what seems to be ordinary is in fact extraor dinary, a...[Read more]