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The Practice of Cultural Studies 2CSR The transformation of the Amish'This is a tour de force! It combines luminous discussion of the core conceptual issues of cultural studies, with a hard headed, practical sense of how research in the field gets done. The result is a seriously smart, comprehensive survey of the whole terrain of cultural studies itself. This is a book on methods which readers will be able to make their own; and which uniquely in the genre will keep them buzzing' Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary University of