books by S. Elizabeth Bird (flexibility supermarket foolishness)

books by S. Elizabeth Bird

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For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids

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S. Elizabeth Bird

University of Tennessee Press, 1992

Tabloids as interactive cultural folklore
Bird is not a former tabloid "insider," but an academic: assistant professor of humanities and anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She discusses tabloid history, beginning as far back as oral "folklore" and urban legends. She interviewed tabloid editors, writers, and readers for this book, and analyzes tabloid stories within the context of folklore theory. She claims that tabloid readers ...

Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud. (Book Reviews).(Book Review): An article from: Human ...
S. Elizabeth Bird

Wayne State University Press, 2002

This digital document is an article from Human Biology, published by Wayne State University Press on August 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1052 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Voodoo Science: The Road from ...

Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture

Westview Press, 1996

One hundred members of NatChat, an electronic mail discussion group concerned with Native American issues, responded to the recent Disney release Pocahontas by calling on parents to boycott the movie, citing its historical inaccuracies and saying that ?Disney has let us down in a cruel, irresponsible manner.? Their anger was rooted in the fact that, although Disney claimed that the film?s portrayal of American Indians would be ?authentic,? the ...

Understanding the ethnographic encounter: the need for flexibility in feminist reception studies.: An article ...
S. Elizabeth Bird

George Mason University, 1995

This digital document is an article from Women and Language, published by George Mason University on September 22, 1995. The length of the article is 4708 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the supplier: The ethnographic studies of media audiences ...