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Why Nothing Works
The Anthropology of Daily Life

Harris, Marvin
Publisher:  Simon & Schuster, New York, USA
Year Published:  1987   First Published:  1981
Pages:  208pp   ISBN:  0-671-63577-8
Library of Congress Number:  HN59.2.H375   Dewey:  973.92
Resource Type:  Book

Harris tries to explain the changes that overtook daily life in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
1. Introduction
2. Why Nothing Works
3. Why the Help Won't Help You
4. Why the Dollar Shrank
5. Why Women Left Home
6. Why the Gays Came Out of the Closet
7. Why There's Terror on the Streets
8. Why the Cults are Coming
9. Why America changed

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