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- Title
What's in a Face?
- Authors
Nash, Jeffrey E.
- Abstract
The English Bulldog is introduced as a cultural product through ethnographic description. Its peculiar physiology relates to its social meanings and three categories of the dog are discerned: show dogs, celebrities, and pets. Each type of dog embodies a selective character, which is depicted and then analyzed in terms of ambiguous semantic categories. As a cultural product, the Bulldog is a living symbol of ambiguous relationships between society and nature. In the context of everyday life, it provides an occasion for understanding these relationships.
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1989, Vol 12, Issue 4, p357
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/BF00989397